| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun jelly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Base (jelly) | 1. An edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods.[Wordnet]. 2. A preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit.[Wordnet]. 3. Any substance having the consistency of jelly or gelatin.[Wordnet]. 4. A substance having the consistency of semi-solid foods.[Wordnet]. 5. Anything brought to a gelatinous condition; a viscous, translucent substance in a condition between liquid and solid; a stiffened solution of gelatin, gum, or the like.[Websters]. 6. The juice of fruits or meats boiled with sugar to an elastic consistence; as, currant jelly; calf's-foot jelly.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Present Tense | 1. Present tense conjugation of the verb jelly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (jelly) | 1. Make into jelly.[Wordnet]. 2. To become jelly; to come to the state or consistency of jelly.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: jellying, jellied, jellies, jellier, jelliers, jellyingly and jelliedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "JELLIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1643. (references) |
Specialty Definition: jelly
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Noun] The inspissated juice of fruit, boiled with sugar.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Dream Interpretation | 1: For a woman to dream of making jelly, signifies she will enjoy pleasant reunions with friends. 2: To dream of eating jelly, many pleasant interruptions will take place. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | ||
| Food & Agriculture | A semi-solid system consisting of a network of solid colloidal aggregates in which liquid is held. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Geography | Jelly is geographically located in Liberia. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 5.492778 degrees North latitude and 8.712778 degrees West longitude. (references) | ||
| Health | Cocaine. (references) | ||
| Mining | 1: See: carbohumin; vegetable jelly. (references) | 2: See:carbohumin; vegetable jelly. (references) | |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (colloquial) Short for gelignite. (references) | 2: [Noun] (UK) A dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set. (references) | 3: [Noun] (US slang) A large backside, especially a woman's. Check out that girl shaking her jelly!. (references) | 4: [Noun] (US) a sweet gelatinous substance derived from fruit juices and pectin 1945, Fannie Merritt Farmer and w:Wilma Lord Perkins revisor, The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, Eighth edition - Perfect jelly is of appetizing flavor; beautifully colored and translucent; tender enough to cut easily with a spoon, yet firm enough to hold its shape when turned from the glass. 1975, Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker, The Joy of Cooking 5th revision - Jelly has great clarity. Two cooking processes are involved. First, the juice alone is extracted from the fruit. Only that portion thin and clear enough to drip through a cloth is cooked with sugar until sufficiently firm to hold its shape. It is never stiff and never gummy. (references) | 5: [Noun] (zoology) Short for jellyfish. (references) | 6: [Noun] Jam that has been sieved to remove pieces of fruit before being allowed to set. (references) | 7: [Verb] To make jelly. (references) | 8: [Verb] To wiggle like jelly. (references) |
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Common Expressions: jelly
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Apple jelly | Jelly made from apple juice. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Calf's-foot jelly | 1: Jelly made from the feet of calves. The gelatinous matter of the feet is extracted by boiling, and is flavored with sugar, essences, etc. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A savory jelly made with gelatin obtained by boiling calves' feet. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Comb jelly | Biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Crabapple jelly | A tart apple jelly made from crab apples. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Glycerin jelly | A mixture of glycerin and gelatin that is used in histology for mounting specimens. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Grape jelly | Jelly made from grape juice. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Grass jelly | Grass Jelly is a type of food with a jelly-like consistency that is used in China and South-East Asia in drinks and desserts. It is also known as cincau (Malay), leong fun (Cantonese) or liang fen (Mandarin). It is sold in cans or packets in Asian supermarkets. (references) | ||
| Jelly baby | Jelly babies are a type of confectionery that look like little babies in a variety of colours. They are very popular in the United Kingdom. There are currently several companies that make Jelly babies, most predominantly Trebor Bassett (famous for their liquorice allsorts) and also by Rowntree (Nestlé). (references) | ||
| Jelly bag | A bag through which the material for jelly is strained. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Jelly bean | Sugar-glazed jellied candy. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Jelly doughnut | A raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Jelly egg | Sugar-glazed jellied candy. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Jelly fungi | The Class Heterobasidiomycetes or jelly fungi is a paraphyletic group of several fungal orders: Tremellales, Auriculariales, Dacryomycetales. These "mushrooms" are so named because their foliose to irregularly branched fruiting body is, or appears to be, the consistency of jelly. Actually, many are somewhat rubbery and gelatinous. When dried, jelly fungi become hard and shriveled; when exposed to water, they return to their original form. (references) | ||
| Jelly fungus | Any fungus of the order Tremellales or Auriculariales whose fruiting body is jellylike in consistency when fresh. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Jelly mold | A mold for forming jelly in ornamental shapes. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Jelly plant | (Bot.), Australian name of an edible seaweed (Eucheuma speciosum), from which an excellent jelly is made. --J. Smith. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Jelly powder | An explosive, composed of nitroglycerin and collodion cotton; -- so called from its resemblance to calf's-foot jelly. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Jelly Roll Morton | United States jazz musician who moved from ragtime to New Orleans jazz (1885-1941). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Jelly tots | Sugar, Glucose syrup, Fruit juices 10% (Strawberry, Lime, Orange, Lemon, Blackfruit), Modified Starch, Citric acid, Acidity regulator (Trisodium citrate), Acetic acid, Flavouring, Vitamin C, Colours (E124, E110, E133, E160(a)), Antioxidant (E320). (references) | ||
| Mineral jelly | A semisolid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum; used in medicinal ointments and for lubrication. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Moon Jelly | Moon Jelly (Aurelia aurita) are the most common Jellyfish species found in the genus Aurelia. Other species found in the genus Aurelia besides A. aurita are: A. labiata, A. limbata, Aurelia sp. They can be found in the Atlantic Ocean, the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, and are common to the waters off California, Japan, the East Coast of the United States as well as Europe. The animal can be large (up to 15cm across), translucent and often considered beautiful for the patterns of color within its body. It feeds by stinging small medusans, plankton and mollusks with its tentacles and bringing them into its body for digestion, but is capable of only limited motion; like other jellies it drifts with the current. (references) | ||
| Petroleum jelly | A semisolid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum; used in medicinal ointments and for lubrication. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Petroleum jelly | Petroleum jelly or petrolatum is a byproduct of the refining of petroleum, made from the residue of petroleum distillation left in the still after all the oil has been vaporized. (references) | ||
| Royal jelly | A secretion of the pharyngeal glands of bees that is fed to very young larvae and to bees destined to be queens. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Royal jelly | Royal jelly is a type of bee secretion that aids in the development of immature or young bees. It is secreted by the heads of young workers and used (amongst other substances) to feed the young until they develop to the desired rank. If a queen is desired, the hatchling will receive only royal jelly as its food source, in order that she will become sexually mature and have the fully developed ovaries needed to lay more eggs for the hive. (references) | ||
| Sea jelly | A medusa, or jellyfish. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Star jelly | (Bot.), any one of several gelatinous plants (Nostoc commune , N. edule , etc.). Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Star Jelly | Star Jelly, or Pwdre Ser, is a compound supposedly deposited on the earth during meteor showers. It is described as a foul-smelling, gelatinous substance, which tends to evaporate shortly after having fallen. (references) | ||
| Wharton's jelly | Wharton's jelly is a gelatinous substance within the umbilical cord. Wharton's jelly is a rich source of stem cells. It is named for the English physician and anatomist Thomas Wharton (1614-1673) who first described it in his publication Adenographia, or "The Description of the Glands of the Entire Body", first published in 1656. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: JELLIES
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Vaginal Creams, Foams and Jellies | Health | Medicated dosage forms for topical application in the vagina. A cream is a semisolid emulsion containing suspended or dissolved medication; a foam is a dispersion of a gas in a medicated liquid resulting in a light, frothy mass; a jelly is a colloidal semisolid mass of a water soluble medicated material, usually translucent. The concept includes vaginal creams, foams, and jellies in general or for which there is no other specific heading. (references) | |
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