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jelly

[jel-ee] / ˈdʒɛl i /


NOUN
cream
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The site also preserved Eoandromeda, a possible comb jelly with eight arms arranged in a spiral.

From Science Daily Aug. 6, 2026

Everyone has a different jar of jelly beans with which to make their calculations.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

One woman, Marie Pierre, is picking sardines from among the discarded jelly fish.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

Maybe it’s homemade peanut butter and jelly sandwiches made on pillowy Wonder Bread, with the crusts cut off.

From Salon Jun. 28, 2026

I touched the clear jelly that Ray squeezed from little holes in the shark’s snout.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

Warmer ocean temperatures can also increase the presence of sea jellies and other gelatinous creatures, Jaros said.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2026

Marine life that most people never see floated into view, including delicate comb jellies with pulsing fairy-light illuminations along their sides.

From Barron's Jan. 26, 2026

Fancy cocktail napkins are a big seller, as are specialty jellies in flavors like hot pepper and cinnamon pear.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 6, 2025

The first is a study from the journal Current Biology found that ctenophores, a phlyum of aquatic invertebrates better known as comb jellies, can successfully fuse together after being injured.

From Salon Nov. 10, 2024

There are so many things to be scared of in this world: blooms of jellies.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin

There are close-ups of hands kneading dough, a snail sliming its way up a window and Cathy prodding a jellied fish with her finger.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 11, 2026

He imagines—and 4- to 7-year-olds see him do it—plucking a length of sunshine off the wall and using what appear to be jellied cubes of colored light to make the beams of his own lighthouse.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 12, 2025

Datasembly measured prices for russet potatoes, roasted turkey gravy, eight buttermilk biscuits, cut green beans, jellied cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie mix, frozen pastry pie shells, whipped topping and sweet corn.

From Washington Times Nov. 15, 2023

Among other things, the month-long event featured a pearly burka, jellied eels and a debate about who really likes pie and mash.

From BBC Apr. 27, 2023

I turned the carcass upside down and scraped off the jellied fat and meat flecks with my fingernails.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

Yet it has caused one hell of a stir, jellying the jaded reserve of hardcore automotive journalists and hard-nose collectors alike.

From The Verge Feb. 2, 2016

A whole summer of jellying and juicing, she said, hadn’t made so much mess in the kitchen.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

In the meantime, our stomachs jellying and our necks burning, we listened, avoided each other’s eyes, and picked toe jam or whatever.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

If the fruit is over-ripe the pectin breaks down into pectosic acid which has not the power of jellying; and as a result the fruit does not jell.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter

The fruit juice must contain a certain amount of pectin, or jellying principle, and also a certain amount of acid.

From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management by Ontario. Ministry of Education




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