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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A trademark for a gelatin dessert.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Trademark a brand of sweetened fruit-flavored powdered mixture, packaged so that it can be conveniently dissolved in hot water and solidified into a gelatin, used as a dessert, sometimes with pieces of fruit mixed in; also the gelatin dessert thus prepared; sometimes used metaphorically.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun US, Canada A brand of dessert made from gelatin.
  • proper noun Through genericization, any brand of fruit flavored gelatin dessert mix.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun fruit-flavored dessert (trade mark Jell-O) made from a commercially prepared gelatin powder
  • noun fruit-flavored dessert (trade mark Jell-O) made from a commercially prepared gelatin powder

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