Cherry vs Ratafia - What's the difference?
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A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
, trees or shrubs that bears cherries.
The wood of a cherry tree.
Cherry red.
(slang) Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
* 2004 , Nick Wright,
(graph theory) A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
* 2004 , Suleyman Cenk Sahinalp, S Muthukrishnan, Ugur Dogrusoz, Combinatorial Pattern Matching
* 2005 , Lior Pachter, Bernd Sturmfels, Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology
(label) A cricket ball.
* 2000 , Woorkheri Raman,
* 2007 , Ben Dirs,
Containing or having the taste of cherries.
Of a bright red colour.
(informal, often, of cars) In excellent condition; mint condition.
* 2003 , John Morgan Wilson,
A liqueur or cordial flavored with peach or cherry kernels, bitter almonds, or other fruits.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 29, author=Pete Wells, title=Bottling the Bounty of the Season, work=New York Times
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As nouns the difference between cherry and ratafia
is that cherry is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc while ratafia is ratafia.As a proper noun cherry
is , a pet form of charity, also interpreted as a flower name.cherry
English
Noun
(cherries)Treading Ground #47 – Throwback
- In any case it’s ironic, considering there hasn’t been a cherry in the white house since Chelsea Clinton'' was ''fourteen .
- Non-isomorphism is detected whenever the algorithm finds a cherry …
- Step 3: Output the tree T. The edge lengths of T are determined recursively: If (x,y) is a cherry connected to node z as in Step 2…
Indians adopt safety first tactics, ESPNcricinfo:
- The Indians have to get early wickets on the morrow and they will have the option of taking the new cherry .
England v West Indies 1st Test, BBC:
- Players are back out and it's Harmison to have first go with the cherry .
Usage notes
Cherry includes, but is not limited to, the following species, of the genus Prunus'': ''Prunus avium'' (wild cherry, mazzard, sweet cherry), ''P. cerasus]]'' (sour cherry), ), and ''[[Prunus virginiana, P. virginiana'' (chokecherry). ''Prunus also includes plums, peaches, apricots, and almonds.Hyponyms
* ) * ) * ) * ) * * ) * ) * ) * ) * ) * ) * ) * ) * ) * ) * (l) ( ) * ) * (l) (Prunus avium ) * (l) (Prunus avium'', ''P. serotinaSee also
* (l)Adjective
(en adjective)Blind Eye, St. Martin’s Press, ISBN 0312309198, page 108:
- A few years earlier, I’d restored my ’65 Mustang convertible to cherry condition—fire engine red, with matching tuck-and-roll—and I wasn’t surprised that it drew attention.
Derived terms
* African cherry orange () * Barbados cherry () * bird-cherry ermine () * bowl of cherries * cherry currant (Ribes rubrum ) * bladder cherry (Physalis alkekengi ) * bob-cherry * cherry pepper (Capsicum annuum ) * cherry pitter * cherry Bakewell tart * cherry birch (Betula lenta ) * cherry blossom * cherry bomb * cherry brandy * cherry laurel (, {{taxlink, Prunus laurocerasus, species, P. laurocerasus, noshow=1}}) * cherry picker * cherry pie * cherry plum (Prunus cerasifera ) * cherry red * cherry tomato () * cherry-pick * cherrystone * cherrywood * cornelian cherry (, C. mas ) * (Physalis spp. ) * Jerusalem cherry () * maraschino cherry * * winter cherry (, Physalis spp. )See also
* * black birch * Chinese lantern * gean * kirsch * marasca () * morello * myrobalan * oxheart * sweet birch * tomatillo * tommytoReferences
ratafia
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(wikipedia ratafia) (en noun)citation