meggy
9.9
A small sour cherry tree or its tart cherries used for cooking
- noun
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cereza ácida
- She picked a basketful of meggy cherries from the tree to bake a tart.
Examples
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In Hungary, meggy is often used to make delicious fruit jams and desserts.
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The meggy tree blossoms beautifully in spring, attracting many bees to its flowers.
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"Meggy."
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
sour cherry tree
vsmeggy
3.7
A small tree that makes tart red cherries often used in cooking and jam
is associated particularly with Hungarian cooking rather than general use
8.2
A small tree from Europe and Asia that makes red or dark sour cherries used for pies
is the everyday culinary name used especially in Hungarian cooking
9.9
A sour cherry tree grown for dark cherries and dark juice
is a broader edible fruit type used in cooking rather than one named variety
9.9
A small sour cherry tree that makes pale red fruit with clear juice
is more commonly used in cooking and preserves than this pale juiced variety
7.7
A wild Dalmatian cherry tree whose bitter fruit is used to make a sweet alcoholic cherry drink
is used mainly in cooking and preserves rather than for making liqueur
How Sour
meggy
9.9
sweet cherry
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2.0
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2.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word meggy comes from Hungarian, where it means 'sour cherry', a small tart fruit often used in cooking. So meggy in English names this kind of cherry and the tree that makes it.