Mazzard

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A sweet cherry, Prunus avium, especially when used as rootstock.

    "In California three rootstock species are in general use. From fairly reliable estimates, about 65 per cent of the cherries grown in the state are grafted on mazzard (Prunus avium); 30 per cent are on mahaleb (P. mahaleb); and 5 per cent on morello (P. cerasus)."

  2. 2
    wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting wordnet

Etymology

Probably a variant of mazard.

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