Definition of "marasca" []

• A European cultivar of the sour cherry tree (Prunus cerasus) bearing bitter red fruit from which maraschino is made. (noun)

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• "Once upon a time, a marasca was a bitter cherry that grew wild in Croatia’s Dalmatian mountains."
• "The real deal is a sour Morello cherry, the marasca, that has been candied and then preserved in a booze-infused cherry syrup."
• "I found through dictionary.com that maraschino is a cordial or liqueur made from the Italian wild marasca cherry and that cherries preserved in this liqueur were the first maraschino cherries recorded in around 1820 though this process of preserving the marasca cherries was far older than that."