OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 22875

marshmallow

/mɑːʃˈmæləʊ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
bombón • carlotina • espumilla • malvavisco • marshmallow • marsmalow • marsmelo • mashmelo • masmalow • masmelo • nubes • sustancia
A type of confectionery, originally (since Ancient Egyptian times) made from this plant, but now generally made of sugar or corn syrup, gelatin that has been presoftened in water, gum arabic, flavorings, and sometimes beaten egg whites, all whipped to a spongy consistency.
It was an apple marshmallow sundae, I recollect. I dug my spoon into it with an assumption of gaiety which I was far from feeling.
The Disagreeable Girl is a female of the genus homo persuasion, built around a digestive apparatus that possesses marked marshmallow proclivities.
📚 noun • entry_id 60039

marsh mallow

Meanings (ES + gloss)
malvavisco
A European species of plant in the mallow family, Althaea officinalis, historically used medicinally and the source of what became the modern marshmallow confection (which no longer contains the plant).
Amongst the herbs to be administered when the charm was sung over him were a yew-berry, lupin, helenium, marsh mallow, dock elder, wormwood and strawberry leaves.
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