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a fruit so beautiful it spent centuries seducing painters before it ever fed anyone
means a small, round, usually red stone fruit of certain trees in the genus Prunus, prized for its sweet-tart flesh.
from From Old North French 'cherise,' which English speakers heard as a plural and trimmed back to a singular 'cherry' — a tidy bit of misunderstanding that gave us a brand-new word. 'Cherise' traces back through Latin 'cerasus' to Greek 'kerasos,' the cherry tree, which may in turn echo the name of Cerasus, an ancient city on the Black Sea coast long associated with the fruit.
- toxic cousins
- Pits contain cyanide-releasing compounds when crushed
- slow ripener
- Trees take three to seven years to fruit
- space traveler
- A cherry pit orbited Earth aboard a shuttle
- stem trick
- Tying one in your mouth is genuinely tongue-dexterity
- blossom fame
- Japan tracks bloom dates back over a millennium
montmorency cherry — tart variety that dominates us commercial production, especially in michigan which grows 75% of the nation's tart cherries
bing cherry — sweet dark red variety, the most popular eating cherry in north america since its creation in 1875
rainier cherry — golden-red sweet cherry developed at washington state university in 1952, named after mount rainier