See Also: marmalade(medicine)
marmalade(1)(dictionary)
marmalade(2)(dictionary)
marmalade(dictionary)
Quince marmalade(recipes)
Onion Marmalade(recipes)
Marmalade chicken(recipes)
Orange marmalade ice cream(recipes)
Venison Sausages with Red Onion Marmalade(recipes)
Apricot and Orange Marmalade Sauce(recipes)

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marmalade noun & adjective. L15.
[French marmelade from Portuguese marmelada, from marmelo quince, dissimilated form of Latin melimelum from Greek melimelon kind of apple grafted on a quince, from meli honey + melon apple.]
A. noun.
A preserve made by boiling fruits (orig. quinces, now citrus fruit, spec. oranges) with sugar to form a consistent mass. L15.
OXFORD marmalade.
(The fruit of) the marmalade tree. Also natural marmalade. L18.
Comb.: marmalade box (the fruit of) the genipap tree, Genipa americana; marmalade plum (the fruit of) the marmalade tree; marmalade tree the mammee sapota tree, Pouteria sapota.
b. adjective.
Sweet. Only in E17.
Made with or consisting of marmalade. L19.
Of the colour of marmalade; orange, ginger. E20.
S. T. Warner Jim was..a mottled marmalade cat.
marmalady adjective resembling marmalade esp. in sweetness, stickiness or colour E17.