cherry

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/    /ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/|/ˈt͡ʃeɹi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
  2. Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
  3. The wood of a cherry tree.
  4. Cherry red.
  5. The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.
  6. Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen. slang
    — "Well, Dangerfield, in less than an hour I'm off in search of my fortune. Jesus, I'm excited, like I was going to lose my cherry. Woke up this morning with an erection that almost touched the ceiling."
  7. A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
    — Non-isomorphism is detected whenever the algorithm finds a cherry v#95;1#92;inT#95;1
  8. A red cricket ball. slang
    — The Indians have to get early wickets on the morrow and they will have the option of taking the new cherry.
  9. A reddish mark left on the bat by the impact of the ball. slang
  10. A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car.
    — "What do you think?" he asked as he wove through traffic, matching Sanford's speed but without the benefit of a flashing cherry on the roof of his car.
  11. The burning tip of a cigarette.
    — I'm horrified: Dag is burning holes in the roof of the car with the cherry of his cigarette.
  12. A woman’s breasts. euphemistic,slang
动词 v.
  1. To redden; to infuse a cherrylike color to something. dated,obsolete,transitive
  2. To cheer, to delight. dated,obsolete,transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Containing or having the taste of cherries.
  2. Of a bright red color; cherry red.
  3. In excellent condition; mint condition. informal,often
    — A few years earlier, I’d restored my ’65 Mustang convertible to cherry condition—fire engine red, with matching tuck-and-roll—and I wasn’t surprised that it drew attention.

词形变化

cherries plural cherrier comparative more cherry comparative cherriest superlative most cherry superlative cherries present,singular,third-person cherrying participle,present cherried participle,past cherried past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirsijā, from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise, Giresun, and kirsch.
词源 2
From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirsijā, from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise, Giresun, and kirsch.
词源 3
From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirsijā, from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise, Giresun, and kirsch.
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