marmalade
marmalade is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A preserve or confection made of the pulp of fruit, as the quince, pear, apple, orange, etc., boiled with sugar, and brought to a jamlike consistence. Marmalade tree (Bot.), a sapotaceous tree (Lucuma mammosa) of the West Indies and Tropical America. It has large obovate leaves and an egg-shaped fruit from three to five inches long, containing a pleasant-flavored pulp and a single large seed. The fruit is called marmalade, or natural marmalade, from its consistency and flavor.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- apple
- artificial
- beet
- bonbon
- butter
- cake
- candied
- candy
- cane
- caramel
- comfit
- confection
- confectionary
- confiture
- conserve
- corn
- cream
- damson
- desert
- dextrose
- dulcet
- dulcification
- dulcify
- dulcitude
- dulcorate
- dulcoration
- edulcorate
- food
- glucose
- grocery
- honey
- honeysuckle
- honied
- hydromel
- ice
- jam
- jujube
- julep
- licorice
- liqueur
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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