maraschino cherry

Questions about maraschino cherry

What does maraschino cherry mean?

maraschino cherry means "Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for maraschino cherry?

Close synonyms include marasca, marasca cherry, Prunus cerasus marasca, maraschino. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is maraschino cherry a common word?

maraschino cherry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.