mazzard
- noun
- Archaic
Examples
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Let me go, sir, or I'll knock you over the mazzard.
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YOU'RE NOT THE IKE MAZZARD, ARE YOU ?
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The gardener selected a sturdy mazzard tree to use as rootstock for the new cherry varieties.
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They planted several mazzard saplings in the orchard to produce flavorful cherries.
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A healthy mazzard is essential for grafting more delicate cultivated cherry trees.
Synonyms
A wild sweet cherry tree used to grow other cherry trees
A small tree that grows in the wild and produces cherries
A wild kind of sweet cherry tree often used as the root for other cherry trees
Compounds
- Archaic
A wild kind of sweet cherry tree often used as the root for other cherry trees
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mazzard comes from an old French word meaning 'wild cherry'. So a mazzard is the wild or seedling cherry tree people used as a strong root for grafting cultivated cherries.