red vs cerise

red and cerise both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
red	Yes	Yes	No	No
cerise	Yes	Yes	No	No

As adjectives, red and cerise are synonyms defined as:

red and cerise: of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

Other synonyms of red include blood-red, carmine, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet.

As nouns, cerise is a hyponym of red; that is, cerise is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than red:

red (noun)	cerise (noun)
red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood	a red the color of ripe cherries
emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue

red (adjective)	cerise (adjective)
(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion	of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
characterized by violence or bloodshed