Bigarreau cherry

noun

Big·​ar·​reau cherry

¦bi-gə-¦ro-

variants or less commonly Bigarreau

plural -s

: any of several cultivated sweet cherries with rather firm, often light-colored globular fruits compare duke sense 5, heart cherry

Word History

Etymology

French bigarreau, from Middle French, from bigarrer to variegate, from bi- bi- entry 1 + -garrer (from garre variegated)

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