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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 cherriesplay

2. cherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueurplay

  Familiarity information: MARASCHINO used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MARASCHINO (noun)


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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