1. A red the colour of ripe cherries
   "She painted her lips a bright cerise";
   - cherry, cherry red

1. Having a colour at the end of the colour spectrum (next to orange); resembling the colour of blood, cherries, tomatoes or rubies
   "The picture would come through dark with a cerise tinge";
   - red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet, reddy, rufescent

Derived forms: cerises

See also: chromatic

Type of: red, redness

Encyclopedia: Cerise