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maraschino cherry

maraschino cherry noun: a preserved, sweetened cherry.

maraschino cherry: a preserved, sweetened cherry
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Noun

maraschino cherry (plural maraschino cherries)

  1. A preserved, sweetened cherry.
    • The wife called not long ago to tell me she had run out of maraschino cherries again.2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 22

Forms of maraschino cherry

pluralmaraschino cherries

Origin of maraschino cherry

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.

Questions about maraschino cherry

What does maraschino cherry mean?
Maraschino cherry means a preserved, sweetened cherry.
What part of speech is maraschino cherry?
Maraschino cherry is a noun.
What is the plural of maraschino cherry?
The plural of maraschino cherry is maraschino cherries.

Words near maraschino cherry in the dictionary

  1. maras
  2. marasca
  3. marascas
  4. maraschino
  5. maraschino cherries
  6. maraschino cherry
  7. maraschinos
  8. Marasco
  9. Marascos
  10. Marash
  11. Marasigan

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