A cherry is a small, round fruit with a pit in the middle and smooth red or dark skin. As an adjective, it can describe something that is cherry-red in color or in perfect, unused condition.
“Cherry” comes from Old Northern French “cherise,” from Latin “cerasum,” the name of a region in ancient Turkey known for the fruit. English speakers mistakenly treated the old word as a plural and formed a new singular “cherry.”
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