cherry stone
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2.8
- noun
- /ˈtʃɛri stoʊn/
:
hueso de cereza
Examples
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Within a week of having all these put in, they’re all false; I broke this on a cherry stone.
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When eating the cherry, remember to remove the cherry stone before you swallow.
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He accidentally cracked his tooth on a cherry stone while enjoying a fruit salad.
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The children had fun playing a game where they tossed cherry stones into a bucket.
Synonyms
A hard stone inside some fruits that contains the seed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the hard pit inside a cherry' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'cherry' (the fruit) with 'stone' (the hard seed/endocarp). This simple noun–noun compounding follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern for naming fruit pits, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
The noun cherry stone is the hard seed found inside a cherry. Long ago people called hard seeds 'stones' because they felt like little rocks, so cherry stone simply means the fruit's 'pit', the small hard part you should not swallow.