Cherry (noun,adj.) noun (pl.-ies). 1) a small soft round fruit with shiny red or black skin and a large seed inside visual vocab page V26. 2) (also cherry tree) a tree on which cherries grow, or a similar tree, grown for its flowers : cherry blossom a winter – flowering cherry. 3) (also cherry wood) the wood of the cherry tree. 4) (also cherry red) a bright red in colour : cherry lips adj.