noun
- a hard pit or stone found inside a cherry fruit
- a type of hard clam found along the Atlantic coast, often used in cooking
Usage: culinary
Examples
- She carefully removed the cherrystone from the cherry before eating it.
- The recipe calls for fresh cherrystones, which are medium-sized clams.
- Cherrystones are popular in New England seafood dishes.
- He cracked the cherrystone open to reveal the sweet fruit inside.
- The fishmonger recommended cherrystones for the clam chowder.
- Cherrystones can be eaten raw on the half shell or cooked.