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Cherry vs Vanilla - What's the difference?

cherry | vanilla |

As proper nouns the difference between cherry and vanilla

is that cherry is , a pet form of charity, also interpreted as a flower name while vanilla is .

As a noun cherry

is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc.

cherry

English

Noun

(cherries)
  • 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, 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 .
  • (graph theory) A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
  • * 2004 , Suleyman Cenk Sahinalp, S Muthukrishnan, Ugur Dogrusoz, Combinatorial Pattern Matching
  • Non-isomorphism is detected whenever the algorithm finds a cherry v_1 \in T_1
  • * 2005 , Lior Pachter, Bernd Sturmfels, Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology
  • 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…
  • (label) A cricket ball.
  • * 2000 , Woorkheri Raman, 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 .
  • * 2007 , Ben Dirs, 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. serotina

    See also

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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, 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 * tommyto

    References

    vanilla

    Noun

  • (label) Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially ), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
  • (label) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
  • (label) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
  • (label) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
  • (label) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
  • Derived terms

    * Cuban vanilla * vanilla grass

    Synonyms

    * (bean) vanilla bean * (extract) vanilla extract * (artificial extract) imitation vanilla

    Adjective

    (more)
  • Of .
  • Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
  • (label) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.
  • *
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  • Plain; conventional; unimaginative.
  • Synonyms

    * See also