See Also: oxazole(medicine)
oxazole(dictionary)
marmalade(medicine)
marmalade(1)(dictionary)
marmalade(2)(dictionary)
marmalade(dictionary)
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Marmalade chicken(recipes)
Quince marmalade(recipes)
Orange marmalade ice cream(recipes)

marmalade(1) (iou) and oxazole (iou)


marmalade(1) (iou)



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.

oxazole (iou)



oxazole noun. L19.
[from OXY- + AZO- + -OLE2.]
Chemistry. A weakly basic heterocyclic compound, C3H3NO, which is a volatile liquid; a substituted derivative of this.
oxazolidine any substituted derivative of the hypothetical heterocyclic compound C3H7NO, some of which are anticonvulsants E20.
oxazolone noun any compound containing the nucleus obtained by hydrogenating one of the double bonds of oxazole and replacing a methylene group by a carbonyl group L19.