jelly

7 definitions • 11 examples

a sweet soft food made by cooking fruit with sugar to preserve it. It is smooth, without any pieces of fruit in it. Jelly is eaten on bread:

a peanut butter and jelly sandwich

apple jelly

a soft, sweet, usually brightly coloured food made from sugar, gelatine, and fruit flavours, that shakes slightly when it is moved:

I've made a strawberry jelly for the children's tea.

jelly and ice cream

any soft, slightly wet substance that shakes slightly when it is moved:

Frogs' eggs are covered in a sort of transparent jelly.

shoes made from coloured transparent plastic, worn especially at the beach:

Are jellies comfortable?

a jellyfish (= a sea creature with a soft, oval, almost transparent body):

Jellies are usually densest in the ocean south of Winyah Bay.

With the numbers of jellies booming, more swimmers are getting stung.

a soft, sweet, slightly solid food made by boiling fruit juice with sugar:

grape/apple jelly

a peanut butter and jelly sandwich

Jelly is also a substance that is almost solid:

petroleum jelly