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MARASCA

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur

Synonyms:

marasca; marasca cherry; maraschino cherry; Prunus cerasus marasca

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("marasca" is a kind of...):

Prunus cerasus; sour cherry; sour cherry tree (rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "marasca"):

marasca (small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("marasca" is a kind of...):

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

Holonyms ("marasca" is a part of...):

marasca; marasca cherry; maraschino cherry; Prunus cerasus marasca (Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur)

Holonyms ("marasca" is a substance of...):

maraschino; maraschino liqueur (distilled from fermented juice of bitter wild marasca cherries)

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