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What does the name "Marron" mean? Is this a word in another launguage? Is the name of a place or person?

Marron are a large type of crayfish or lobster like crustacean that some people eat. This would seem to me to the most logical explanation for using that name. Here is a picture of some of them:

Then again, marron is french for the English Maroon. Maybe that's it and maroon is the English version of it. Inquiring minds gotta know you know.
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Jeff Ronne Sr
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I thought it meant a chess nut coated in sugar.
or the color of maroon..just saying..lol

I E-mailed Freek last year to ask the same question. I received no response to that question.
I think he thought I was being goofy or even rude, I was not trying to be rude just very curious. LOL

My first thought was that it was referring to the color " Maroon "
but mis spelled.

I also looked up the meaning of " Marron " to see what I might be missing.
I learned about the crustacean I hadn't been familiar with as well
as the French meaning/spelling (coluor / color - Marron / Maroon),LOL

I still think it refers to the color " Maroon " except spelled differently
due to the language differences (European / French spelling).

. . . Lar M
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Boas By Klevitz
Boas By Klevitz

I am pretty sure it is the last name of the person who first bred them.

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Joel Thomas

Don't tread on me!

It is pronounced Mair(as in air with an M in front of it) and on(as in on) Marr-on
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Kevin Stewart

>>It is pronounced Mair(as in air with an M in front of it) and on(as in on) Marr-on
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>>Kevin Stewart
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Nice guessing guys...
The Marrons are bred by a German fellow named Jörn Pelkofer.
The line is named after the red crayfish that Jeff shows, pronounced as so and not as the color.

The best red snake out there imo.
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manos

This is another one that I see pretty often. Seems like too often to be a simple spelling mistake, but I know that's probably it.

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I had wondered where the name came from and have heard a handful of odd pronunciations..
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Ed Lilley,
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