red vs cherry

red and cherry both are nouns.

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

As adjectives, red and cherry are synonyms defined as:

red and cherry: 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, cerise, cherry-red, crimson, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet.

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

red (noun)	cherry (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	a red fruit with a single hard stone
the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue	any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
	wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry

red (adjective)	cherry (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