Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A type of sour cherry having pale red fruit and colorless or nearly colorless juice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun any of several varieties of cultivated sour cherry trees of the species
Prunus cerasus bearing fruit with colorless juice, e.g.Prunus cerasus caproniana. - noun a pale red sour cherry with colorless or nearly colorless juice.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice
- noun pale red sour cherry with colorless or nearly colorless juice
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[German, from Medieval Latin amārellum, from Latin amārus, bitter.]
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Examples
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Strain into a large highball glass over crushed ice, garnish with an amarelle cherry, and serve.
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Strain into a large highball glass over crushed ice, garnish with an amarelle cherry, and serve.
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