cherry stone

Thân thiện

A child carefully places a cherry stone on a small pile of soil.

Definition

Noun: - The hard pit or seed found at the center of a cherry fruit: A "cherry stone" is the small, hard, inedible inner part of a cherry that contains the seed.

Usage

• This term is used specifically to refer to the pit of a cherry fruit.
• It is a countable noun (e.g., , ).

Examples

Advanced Usage

• "To pit a cherry": This phrase means to remove the cherry stone. While "cherry stone" is the object removed, the action is "to pit."
  • This tool is used to pit cherries quickly.

Variants and Related Words

• Pit (noun): A common synonym for the hard seed of various fruits, including cherries, peaches, and plums.
  • A peach pit is much larger than a cherry stone.
• Stone fruit (noun): A category of fruits that have a large, hard pit or "stone" inside, such as cherries, plums, and apricots.

Synonyms

• Pit: The hard inner layer of some fruits.
• Seed: (In this specific context) The inner, reproductive part contained within the stone.

Notes

• The term "cherry stone" refers specifically to the pit of the cherry. It is not typically used in idioms or phrasal verbs. The compound word "cherrystone" (often written as one word) can refer to a type of clam, but that is a separate lexical item and not the target word "cherry stone."

Học thuật

Noun

1. the stone seed of a cherry