Editing Cherry (section)

== Etymology ==
[[File:Sara_Ploos_van_Amstel_-_The_Cherry_Seller_-_watercolor_after_Jacob_Ochtervelt.jpg|thumb|upright|''The Cherry Seller'' by [[Sara Troost]] (Netherlands, 18th&nbsp;century)]]

The English word cherry derives from [[Old Northern French]] or [[Norman language|Norman]] ''cherise'' from the Latin ''cerasum'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cherry|title=Cherry|publisher=Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper|date=2017|access-date=13 February 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214102241/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cherry|archive-date=14 February 2017}}</ref> referring to an ancient Greek region, Kerasous (Κερασοῦς) near [[Giresun]], [[Turkey]], from which cherries were first thought to be exported to Europe.<ref>{{cite book |last=Rhind |first=William |date=1841 |title=A History of the Vegetable Kingdom |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V1-Cg_DD0L4C&pg=PA334 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214102917/https://books.google.ca/books?id=V1-Cg_DD0L4C&pg=PA334 |archive-date=14 February 2017 |url-status=live |page=334 |publisher=Oxford University}}</ref>

The word "cherry" is also used for some species that bear fruits with similar size and shape even though they are not in the same ''Prunus'' genus; some of these species include the "[[Muntingia|Jamaican cherry]]" (''Muntingia calabura'') and the "[[Mimusops elengi|Spanish cherry]]" (''Mimusops elengi'').<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wiersema |first1=John H. |last2=León |first2=Blanca |year=2016 |title=World Economic Plants: A Standard Reference |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AIrNBQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Muntingia%22+cherry+%22cerasus%22&pg=PA833 |edition=second |location=Boca Raton, Florida, USA |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-1-4665-7681-0 |pages=833–834 }}</ref>