Noun | 1. | ![]() cherry - a red fruit with a single hard stone genus Prunus, Prunus - a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions cherry - wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry wild cherry tree, wild cherry - an uncultivated cherry tree Prunus avium, sweet cherry - large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation Prunus cerasus, sour cherry, sour cherry tree - rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruit Catalina cherry, Prunus lyonii - evergreen shrub or small tree found on Catalina Island (California) flowering cherry - any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Prunus cultivated for their showy white or pink single or double blossoms chokecherry tree, Prunus virginiana, chokecherry - a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds fruit tree - tree bearing edible fruit |