maraschino
maraschino · maraschinos
A sweet liqueur made from marasca cherriesA sweet liqueur made from marasca cherries.
UK/ˌmæɹ.əˈʃiː.nəʊ/US/ˌmæɹ.əˈʃi.noʊ/
» Nothing tastes better than the maraschino cherry.
Eccles17 · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)A sweet liqueur made from marasca cherries.
distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca cherries
Examples
1 sentencesNothing tastes better than the maraschino cherry.
Origin
From Italian maraschino, from marasca (“morello cherry”) + -ino (“diminutive suffix”), froFrom Italian maraschino, from marasca (“morello cherry”) + -ino (“diminutive suffix”), from amarasca, from amaro (“bitter”).
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Forms
plural: maraschinos| Singular | maraschino |
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Synonyms
2 synonymsClose in meaning
- cherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur:maraschino cherry
- distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca cherries:maraschino liqueur
Word family
1 related wordsDerivedmaraschino cherry
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable