noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A sweet liqueur made from marasca cherries. countable, uncountable
2. 2
   cherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur wordnet
3. 3
   distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca cherries wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

cordialmaraschino cherrymaraschino liqueur

Example

More examples

"Nothing tastes better than the maraschino cherry."

Etymology

From Italian maraschino, from marasca, from amaro (“bitter”).

Related phrases

maraschino cherry

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