Also 7 biguar, 7–8 bigarro, 7–9 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.

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1675.  Phil. Trans., X. 494. Cherry of that kind which we call Bigarreaux.

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1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, II. iii. 49. The Biguar Cherry is a fair kind.

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1693.  Evelyn, De la Quint. Compl. Gard., I. 73. The backward Cherries or Bigarros.

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1719.  London & Wise, Compl. Gard., 87. The Biggaro, or Heart-Cherry, is a Fruit both firm and crackling.

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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.

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1875.  M. Collins, Sweet & Twenty, I. I. xii. 166. Under the great bigaroon cherry-trees.

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