Ruby and Cherry

ruby

A transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem.
A transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers.
A deep and vivid red color.
- synonyms: crimson, deep red

Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
- synonyms: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby-red, scarlet

(n.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
(n.) A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
(n.) See Agate, n., 2.
(v.t.) To make red; to redden.
(n.) The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
(n.) That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
(a.) Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Ruby is a feminine given name

cherry

Wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry.
Any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood.
- synonyms: cherry tree
A red fruit with a single hard stone.
A red the color of ripe cherries.
- synonyms: cerise, cherry red

Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
- synonyms: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet

(n.) A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone;.
(n.) 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 Medoc in France).
(n.) The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors.
(n.) The wild cherry; as, Prunus serotina (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; P. Virginiana (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; P. avium and P. Padus, European trees (bird cherry).
(n.) A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry.
(a.) Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks.
(n.) The timber of the cherry tree, especially of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Cherry is a feminine given name