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say it: mar-uh-SKEE-noh
maraschino is a noun meaning "distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca cherries". It carries 2 recorded senses.
distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca cherries
cherry preserved in true or imitation 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 maraschino come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.