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Acetary
noun · 78% connection
An acid pulp in certain fruits, as the pear.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preserve, confection, pulp, fruit, quince.
Apple
noun · 78% connection
Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preserve, confection, pulp, fruit, quince.
Avocado
noun · 78% connection
The pulpy fruit of Persea gratissima, a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; -- called also avoca…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preserve, confection, pulp, fruit, quince.
Bartlett
noun · 78% connection
A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchretien. It was brought…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preserve, confection, pulp, fruit, quince.
Bergamot
noun · 78% connection
A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of deli…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preserve, confection, pulp, fruit, quince.
Boiled
adjective · 78% connection
Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preserve, confection, pulp, fruit, quince.
Borer
noun · 78% connection
One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preserve, confection, pulp, fruit, quince.
Bouilli
noun · 78% connection
Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preserve, confection, pulp, fruit, quince.
Burrel
noun · 78% connection
A sort of pear, called also the red butter pear, from its smooth, delicious, soft pulp.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preserve, confection, pulp, fruit, quince.
Calculary
noun · 78% connection
A congeries of little stony knots found in the pulp of the pear and other fruits.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preserve, confection, pulp, fruit, quince.
Chokeberry
noun · 78% connection
The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preserve, confection, pulp, fruit, quince.
Colocynth
noun · 78% connection
The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermel…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preserve, confection, pulp, fruit, quince.
Comfit
noun · 78% connection
A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preserve, confection, pulp, fruit, quince.
Core
noun · 78% connection
The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preserve, confection, pulp, fruit, quince.
Dextrose
noun · 78% connection
A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preserve, confection, pulp, fruit, quince.
Dumpling
noun · 78% connection
A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boile…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preserve, confection, pulp, fruit, quince.
Electuary
noun · 78% connection
A medicine composed of powders, or other ingredients, incorporated with some convserve, honey, or sirup; a confection. See the note un…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preserve, confection, pulp, fruit, quince.
Glucose
noun · 78% connection
A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preserve, confection, pulp, fruit, quince.
