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Cher`o*kees" (?), n. pl.;
sing. Cherokee. (Ethnol.)
An Appalachian tribe of Indians, formerly inhabiting the
region about the head waters of the Tennessee River. They are now
mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of
the most civilized of the Indian Tribes.

Che*root" (ch&esl;*r&oomac;t"; 277),
n. [Tamil shuru&tsdot;&tsdot;u, prop., a
roll.] A kind of cigar, originally brought from Manila, in
the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated
tobacco.

Cher"ry (ch&ebreve;r"r&ybreve;), n.
[OE. chery, for cherys, fr. F. cerise (cf.
AS. cyrs cherry), fr. LL. ceresia, fr. L.
cerasus Cherry tree, Gr. keraso`s, perh. fr.
ke`ras horn, from the hardness of the wood.]
1. (Bot.) A tree or shrub of the
genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a
fleshy drupe with a bony stone; (a)
The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which
several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of
which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart,
morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from Médoc in
France).


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