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MARASCHINO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does maraschino mean?
• MARASCHINO (noun)
The noun MARASCHINO has 2 senses:
1. distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca cherries
2. cherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur
Familiarity information: MARASCHINO used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca cherries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
maraschino; maraschino liqueur
Hypernyms ("maraschino" is a kind of...):
cordial; liqueur (strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal)
Meronyms (substance of "maraschino"):
marasca (small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Cherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
maraschino; maraschino cherry
Hypernyms ("maraschino" is a kind of...):
confection; sweet (a food rich in sugar)
Context examples
But straightway they all plunged into politics, varied by the drinking of sweet maraschino, which a footman brought round upon a salver.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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