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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A European cultivar of the wild cherry, Prunus cerasus, that bears bright red fruit used for making maraschino.
2. 2
   Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur wordnet
3. 3
   small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

marasca cherrymaraschino cherryprunus cerasus marasca

Etymology

From Italian marasca.

Related phrases

prunus cerasuswild cherry

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