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CHERRIES

Date "CHERRIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: CHERRIES

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Dream Interpretation

To dream of cherries, denotes you will gain popularity by your amiability and unselfishness. To eat them, portends possession of some much desired object. To see green ones, indicates approaching good fortune. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

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Specialty Definition: Cherry

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)


Washington, D.C. Tidal Basin cherry trees, Larger image


Cherry tree blossoms, Larger image


Formation of the cherry fruit - beginning of may (France)


Ripe Bing Cherries, Larger image

A cherry is a drupe, a fleshy fruit that has a single hard stone enclosing a seed. It belongs to the family Rosaceae and genus Prunus, along with almonds, peaches, plums, and apricots. Sweet and tart cherries are different species, avium and cerasus respectively.

In the United States, most sweet cherries are grown in the West. Washington and California supply mainly dark, sweet Bing cherries intended for fresh use, while Oregon and Michigan provide light-colored Royal Ann (Napoleon) cherries for the maraschino cherry process. Most tart cherries are grown in four states bordering the Great Lakes -- Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Some flowering cherry trees (known as 'ornamental cherries') do not bear fruit. They are grown purely for their blossom and their decorative value.

Cherries have a very short fruiting season. In Australia, they are usually at their peak around Christmas time, and in the UK they are generally ready for picking in early summer.

Annual world production (as of 2003) of cherries is about 3 million tonnes (one third are sour cherries).

See also


Food  |  List of fruits  |  List of vegetables

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cherry."

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Crosswords: CHERRIES

English words defined with "CHERRIES": acerolabarbados cherry, blood-redcarmine, cerise, cherry, Cherry brandy, Cherry pit, cherry red, Cherry rum, Cherry tree, cherry-red, crimsonendocarpgenus Physalisheart cherryJerusalem cherrykirschmaleic acid, Malpighia glabra, maraschinooxheart, oxheart cherryPhysalis, pit, Plum weevilQueen applered, reddish, ruby, ruby-red, ruddyscarlet, sour cherry, split, stone, Surinam cherryTartarianWest Indian cherry, Wild cherry. (references)
Specialty definitions using "CHERRIES": BRINE MAKER II, brown rot of fruit treesCHERRY CUTTER, Cherry Trees and the Cuckoo, CHERRY-COLOURED CATfruit pickerHARVEST WORKER, FRUITKings have Long HandsMay-duke CherriesSigns, spur canker. (references)

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Modern Usage: CHERRIES

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Cherries! Great lumpy gravy (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese)

Life is just a bowl of cherries (A Hole in the Head; writing credit: Arnold Schulman;)

I'll have a Shirley Temple and some merecino cherries. (Jack; writing credit: James DeMonaco; Gary Nadeau)

When cherries are red, they're ready for plucking (The Office; writing credit: Ricky Gervais; Stephen Merchant)

Clever

Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices, and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Buy Your Own Cherries (1904)

Hot Cherries (1990)

Chocolate Cherries 2 (1990)

California Cherries (1987)

Chocolate Cherries (1984)

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Commercial Usage: CHERRIES

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Books

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

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Photo Album: CHERRIES

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Cherries. Credit: USDA.

Boy picking cherries, Door County, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress.

Buyer examining cherries in fruit market, Benton Harbor, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.

Checking weight of five-pound cans of cherries. Canning plant, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress.

Machine which fills five-pound cans with cherries. Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress.

Women removing defective cherries in canning plant. Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress.

Picking cherries. Door County, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress.

Inspecting crate of cherries at fruit market. Benton Harbor, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cherry orchards near Emmett, Gem County, Idaho. About 200 carloads of black bing cherries are shipped from Idaho yearly. Credit: Library of Congress.

End of the beltline of women removing defective cherries and stems. Canning plant. Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Digital Photo Gallery: CHERRIES
 

"Cherries" by Hana Matz
Commentary: "I was eating some cherries and messing around with my camera and I came up with this. I'd love to see what you do with this! Email me: gurlzonemagazine@aol.com ."
"Cherries in champagne 2" by Frank Manno
Commentary: "Cherries floating in champagne."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: CHERRIES

AuthorQuotation

John Pierpont Morgan

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

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Use in Literature: CHERRIES

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Some of them are seen eating cherries among the growing grain

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

And first the cherries ripen

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Non-Fiction Usage: CHERRIES

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Economic History

Japan

Export stars include, pork, ice cream, broccoli, asparagus, frozen vegetables, wine, cherries, and processed snack foods. (references)

Brazil

Today, imports of pears, grapes, apples, plums, kiwi, peaches and cherries represent approximately 97 percent of total fresh fruit imports. (references)

China

A few Chinese importers have licenses to import US fruits (other than apples, cherries, grapes and citrus) for hotels and supermarkets that cater to overseas visitors. (references)

Trade

Germany

In addition to considerable tariffs which vary by product, imports of selected produce (tomatoes, cucumber, artichokes, courgettes, citrus, table grapes, apples, pears, apricots, cherries, peaches, nectarines and plums) are subject to an entry price system. (references)

Brazil

Breeder livestock (cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and donkeys, including semen and embryos); wine and brandy, distilled spirits (rum, wodka and whiskey); fresh vegetables (asparagus, beans, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn, garlic, lettuce, onions, peppers, potatoes and tomatoes); canned vegetables (asparagus, beans, carrots, corn, peas, tomatoes and tomato paste); frozen vegetables (beans, broccoli, carrots, corn and spinach); peanut butter or peanut flour; dairy products (butter, butter oil, ghee, anhydrous milk fat, non-fat and whole milk powder, whey powder, whey protein concentrate, lactose, non-sweetened condensed milk, fluid milk, lecithin and cheese); ice cream; meat, frozen or chilled (beef, pork and their products);wheat, wheat flour, semolina; cotton, 100% cotton yarn, 100% cotton fabrics (woven and knit unbleached/bleached/dyed, and/or printed); rice; feed grains (barley, including malting barley, white corn, yellow corn, sorghum and oats); corn products (flour, starch, corn meal, popcorn and gluten); pulses(dry beans, peas and lentils), poultry breeder stock (baby chicks, turkey pouts and hatching eggs); eggs and egg products (fresh, dry, refrigerated, frozen, albumin, etc); fresh fruits (apples, apricots, avocados, blueberries, cherries, grapes, grapefruit, kiwi, lemons, melons, nectarines, oranges, pears, plums, peaches, raspberries and tangerines); hops: hops extract; tallow: grease, lard, barley malt; potatoes(cut and chilled or frozen; flakes, granules); peanuts; commercially prepared dog and cat food, animal feed ingredients, fish food; seeds for sowing; almonds ( walnuts, pistachios, hazelnut and pecan); dry fruits, frozen fruits, canned fruits, fruit pure and fruit pulp, 100% natural fruit juice; seafood (fresh and frozen);tomato paste; alfalfa; honey; skins; nutritional beverages preparations (for human consumption); soy protein products; vegetable oils; wood; beer; cereals; preparation for breads and pizzas (powder, refrigerated of frozen); canned pickles; ready-to-eat meals; soft drinks and sodas; soups and sauces. (references)

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Usage Frequency: CHERRIES

"CHERRIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 91.30% of the time. "CHERRIES" is used about 230 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)91.3%21020,939
Noun (proper)8.7%2078,262
                    Total100.00%230N/A

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Expressions: CHERRIES

Expressions using "CHERRIES": Barbadoes cherries cry cherries. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CHERRIES

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

wild cherries.com

1,626
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Modern Translation: CHERRIES

Language Translations for "CHERRIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

surkirsebær i sukkerlage (morello cherries in syrup), surkirsebær (acid cherries, morello cherries, sour cherries), sødkirsebær (bird cherry, mazzard cherry, sweet cherry). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zure kersen op siroop (morello cherries in syrup), morellen op siroop (morello cherries in syrup). (various references)

   

French

  

cerisette (cherry drink). (various references)

   

German

  

Kirschen (cherry). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ciliege. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

errieschay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

cerejas (cherry). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

striga (bark out, bawl, bellow, brawl, break, call, call out, clamor, clamour, cry, cry cherries, cry out, ejaculate, hail, hallo, halloo, hollo, hoop, howl, page, roar, scream, screech, shout, shriek, shriek out, squall, vociferate, yell). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cerezas (cherry). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: CHERRIES

Derivations

Words ending with "CHERRIES": chokecherries. (additional references)


Misspellings

"CHERRIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cherie, cherios, Cheris, cherles, chermes, Cherrett, cherrie, cherrio, Cherryes, chiris, Chirrie, Chorrie, churros, chytrids, Scherbius. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "CHERRIES"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "CHERRIES" (pronounced khe"rēz)
4-e" r ē zberries, buries, canaries, dairies, fairies, ferries, Harries, marries, varies.
3-r ē zactuaries, adversaries, allegories, asymmetries, aviaries, conservatories, contemporaries, corollaries, beneficiaries, blackberries, blueberries, cadres, capillaries, carries, categories, cemeteries, Ceres, commentaries, commissaries, confectionaries, countries, cowries, cranberries, dictionaries, dignitaries, dormitories, emissaries, entries, estuaries, fiduciaries, foundries, functionaries, geometries, glories, imageries, industries, intermediaries, interrogatories, inventories, itineraries, juries, laboratories, lampreys, laundries, lavatories, legionaries, libraries, lorries, luminaries, mercenaries, militaries, miniseries, ministries, missionaries, monasteries, obituaries, observatories, ordinaries, pastries, pleasantries, prairies, preliminaries, primaries, proprietaries, quarries, queries, raspberries, reactionaries, reformatories, registries, repositories, revolutionaries, rivalries, safaris, sanctuaries, saris, secondaries, secretaries, seminaries, sentries, series, signatories, stories, strawberries, subsidiaries, tapestries, temporaries, territories, theories, toiletries, tories, tributaries, visionaries.

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Anagrams: CHERRIES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-i-r-r-s"

-1 letter: chirres, herries, rehires.

-2 letters: cerise, cheers, chirre, chirrs, creesh, criers, hirers, rehire, rerise, ricers, richer, riches, seiche, sirree.

-3 letters: ceres, cheer, chirr, cires, crier, cries, eches, heirs, heres, hirer, hires, ricer, rices, riser, scree, serer, sheer, shier, shire, shirr, siree.

-4 letters: cees, cere, chis, cire, cris, eche, errs, heir, here, hers, hies, hire, ices.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-i-r-r-s"
 

+1 letter: archeries, cherisher, enrichers.

 

+2 letters: cherishers, heresiarch, heretrices, heritrices, rechristen, screechier, seborrheic, stretchier.

 

+3 letters: charioteers, decipherers, encipherers, hackberries, heresiarchs, hierarchies, microsphere, rechristens, researching, researchist, schwarmerei, tetrarchies, treacheries.

 

+4 letters: archerfishes, bunchberries, characteries, charcuteries, chinaberries, chokeberries, hierarchizes, inheritrices, merchandiser, microspheres, predischarge, receivership, rechristened, researchists, rhinoceroses, schwarmereis, speechwriter, trierarchies.

 

+5 letters: architectures, characterizes, chokecherries, chronometries, cruiserweight, cryotherapies, dysmenorrheic, huckleberries, interchangers, merchandisers, overachievers, precentorship, preceptorship, predischarged, predischarges, receiverships, rechristening, saccharimeter, secretaryship, speechwriters, squirearchies, stereographic, superachiever, superencipher, terpsichorean, thermospheric.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Bibliography


  

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