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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To rub through a strainer or process (food) in a blender.
  2. n. Food prepared by straining or blending.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A kind of broth or soup consisting of meat, fish, or vegetables boiled to a pulp, and passed through a sieve. The ordinary pea-soup is a familiar example.
  2. n. A dessert made of crushed fruit, sweetened and flavored with some cordial or orange- or lemon-juice.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A food that has been ground or crushed into a thick liquid (e.g. tomato sauce is generally a puree).
  2. v. transitive, cooking To crush or grind food into a purée.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; ; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender
  2. n. food prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a blender

Etymologies

  1. French purée. (Wiktionary)
  2. From French, purée, from Old French, from feminine past participle of purer, to strain, clean, from Latin pūrāre, to purify, from pūrus, clean; see peuə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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