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Definition of Morello

1. Noun. Any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing fruit with dark skin and juice.

2. Noun. Cultivated sour cherry with dark-colored skin and juice.

Definition of Morello

1. n. A kind of nearly black cherry with dark red flesh and juice, -- used chiefly for preserving.

Definition of Morello

1. Noun. A variety of cultivated cherry, ''Prunus cerasus austera'', having a dark skin ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Morello

1. a variety of sour cherry [n -LOS]

Medical Definition of Morello

1. A kind of nearly black cherry with dark red flesh and juice, used chiefly for preserving. Origin: Cf. It. Morello blackish, OF. Morel. Cf. Morelle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Morello

more power to your elbow more so more than more than one can poke a stick at more than one can shake a stick at more than you can shake a stick at moreen moreens morefold moreish

morel moreland morelands morelle morelles morello (current term) morellos morels morendo moreness

morenesses morenosite moreover morepork moreporks mores moreso moresomes moresques

Literary usage of Morello

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Fruit Book: Containing Directions for Raising, Propagating, and by Samuel W. Cole (1849)
"43. LEMERCIER. In size, form, color, quality, and time, nearly the same as Late Duke. Messrs. Hovey have this fruit. Class 1. 44. ENGLISH morello, morello. ..."

2. The Fruits and Fruit-trees of America: Or, the Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing, Charles Downing (1900)
"The morello (.'berries, being weaker growing sorts, are trained in the fan manner ... The Duke and morello Cherries, also wanting a natural division, ..."

3. Landscapes of Tuscany: A Countryside Guide by Elizabeth Mizon (2002)
"Short walks (both omit the ascent of Monte morello) 1 ... 3.5km up the Monte morello road (leave the Via Bolognese at a junction signposted to Monte morello ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"But, as an able critic, Vicenzo morello, has said, ' these fragile blossoms of song appear one day and disappear the next in that blighting wind of ..."

5. The Book of the Garden by Charles McIntosh (1855)
"morello. — Size large; form oblate heart- shaped ; colour dark red ; ripens July and August A most valuable and well-known cherry, extremely hardy, ..."

6. The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture: A Reference System of Commercial by Granville Lowther, William Worthington (1914)
"8 HIGHLY RECOMMENDED — Kitchen and Market : Large Montmorency; Montmorency Ordinaire; Richmond, Early; morello, English (Wragg). Kitchen: Late Kentish. ..."

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