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morello

mo·rello

US/mɜrˈɛloʊ/ uncommon

noun

1.

any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing fruit with dark skin and juice

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2.

cultivated sour cherry with dark-colored skin and juice

Origin

Probably either: * an alteration of morel with Italian -ello substituted for the ending, perhaps after Italian morello (“dark-coloured”); or * from Italian amarello and/or Dutch amarelle, marelle, both from Medieval Latin amārellum, from Latin amārus + -ellum.

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