Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mixture of finely cut vegetables or fruits, sometimes jellied, and served as a salad, a dessert, or an appetizer.
- noun A mixture; a medley.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mold of jolly containing a mixture of fruits; also, a mixture of vegetables served as a garnish to meat or, with a sauce, as a vegetable dish or as a salad.
- noun Hence, figuratively, any mixture of unrelated things.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (fig.), (fig.) A kind of mixed dish, as of cooked vegetables with white sauce, sweet jelly with whole fruit, mixed diced fruits or vegetables etc.; served hot or cold
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A type of dish containing a mixture of many types of
fruits , or many types ofvegetables . - noun A confused mixture; medley.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun mixed diced fruits or vegetables; hot or cold
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, from Macédoine, Macedonia (perhaps from the mixture of different ethnic groups there).]
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