bigarreau

[ big-uh-roh, big-uh-roh ]

noun

1. a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry, having firm flesh.

bigarreau

/ ˌbɪɡəˈrəʊ; ˈbɪɡəˌrəʊ /

noun

1. any of several heart-shaped varieties of sweet cherry that have firm flesh

Word History and Origins

Origin of bigarreau¹

1620–30; < French, equivalent to bigarr ( é ) variegated (past participle of bigarrer, perhaps bi ( s ) twice ( bis ¹ ) + -garrer, verbal derivative of Middle French garre of two colors; of obscure origin) + -eau noun suffix (earlier -el < Latin -ellus )

Word History and Origins

Origin of bigarreau¹

C17: from French, from bigarré mottled

Example Sentences

In 1909, a Smith was listed, with Smith's Bigarreau as a synonym.

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Elkhorn has served its day and is now being rapidly superseded by other cherries of the Bigarreau group to which it belongs.

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Though of the Bigarreau group the flesh is too tender to well withstand harvesting, shipping and the brown-rot.

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White Bigarreau is a cherry of the past, having been considered one of the good sorts of a century ago.

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Windsor is the standard late Bigarreau and one of the most profitable of the hard-fleshed cherries grown in New York.

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