Also 7 biguar, 78 bigarro, 79 biguarreau. [a. F. bigarreau, pl. -eaux, f. bigarré variegated. Bigarroon seems to be an Eng. change.] The large white heart-cherry, one side of which is pale yellow, and the other red. See also quot. 1859.
1675. Phil. Trans., X. 494. Cherry of that kind which we call Bigarreaux.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, II. iii. 49. The Biguar Cherry is a fair kind.
1693. Evelyn, De la Quint. Compl. Gard., I. 73. The backward Cherries or Bigarros.
1719. London & Wise, Compl. Gard., 87. The Biggaro, or Heart-Cherry, is a Fruit both firm and crackling.
1859. Loudon, Encycl. Gard., § 4485. At the present time all the heart-shaped cherries which have the flesh firm are arranged under the head of Bigarreaux.
1875. M. Collins, Sweet & Twenty, I. I. xii. 166. Under the great bigaroon cherry-trees.