maraschino cherry

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A preserved, sweetened cherry.
    — The wife called not long ago to tell me she had run out of maraschino cherries again.

词形变化

maraschino cherries plural

词源

Derived from the historical use of the technique of preserving cherries in maraschino liqueur, an alcoholic beverage produced by the fermentation of marasca cherries; the name continued to be used after production methods moved to nonalcoholic forms of preservation during the period of Prohibition in the United States.
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