maraschino

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

maraschino
    n 1: distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca
         cherries [syn: {maraschino}, {maraschino liqueur}]
    2: cherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur
       [syn: {maraschino}, {maraschino cherry}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Maraschino \Ma`ra*schi"no\, n. [It., fr. marasca, amarasca, a
   sour cherry, L. amarus bitter.]
   A liqueur distilled from fermented cherry juice, and flavored
   with the pit of a variety of cherry which grows in Dalmatia.
   [1913 Webster]

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