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 cherries

2. cherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur

  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)