Maraschino cherry
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A preserved, sweetened cherry.
"The wife called not long ago to tell me she had run out of maraschino cherries again."
- 2 cherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur wordnet
- 3 Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur wordnet
Example
More examples"The wife called not long ago to tell me she had run out of maraschino cherries again."
Etymology
Derived from the historical use of the technique of preserving cherries in maraschino liqueur, an alcoholic beverage produced by the fermentation of marasca cherries; the name continued to be used after production methods moved to nonalcoholic forms of preservation during the period of Prohibition in the United States.