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ma·ras·ca
(mə-răs′kə)n.
A tree of any of several cultivars of the sour cherry that bear small bitter fruit from which maraschino is made.
[Italian; see maraschino.]
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marasca
(məˈræskə)n
(Plants) a European cherry tree, Prunus cerasus marasca, with red acid-tasting fruit from which maraschino is made
[C19: from Italian, variant of amarasca from amaro, from Latin amārus bitter]
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ma•ras•ca
(məˈræs kə)n., pl. -cas.
a wild cherry, Prunus cerasus marasca, yielding a small bitter fruit from which maraschino is made.
[1860–65; < Italian, variant of amarasca, derivative of amaro < Latin amārus bitter]
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| Noun | 1. |  marasca - small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is mademaraschino, maraschino liqueur - distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca cherries marasca cherry, maraschino cherry, Prunus cerasus marasca, marasca - Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur fruit - the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant |
| 2. |  marasca - Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueurPrunus cerasus, sour cherry, sour cherry tree - rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruit marasca - small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made |
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