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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
marasca is a noun meaning "small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made". It carries 2 recorded senses.
small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made
Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for marasca come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.