cherry
noun
[ ˈtʃɛri ]
• a small, soft round stone fruit that is typically bright or dark red.
• "a bowl of cherries"
• the tree that bears the cherry.
• a bright deep red colour.
• "her mouth was a bright cherry red"
• one's virginity.
• "only 3 per cent of the students lost their cherry at college"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old Northern French cherise, from medieval Latin ceresia, based on Greek kerasos ‘cherry tree, cherry’. The final - s was lost because cherise was interpreted as plural (compare with caper2 and pea).
