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jell-o
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun jell-o has 1 sense
- jell-o(n = noun.food) jello - fruit-flavored dessert (trade mark Jell-O) made from a commercially prepared gelatin powder; Array is a kind of gelatin dessert, hydrocolloid
CIDE DICTIONARY
jell-o, n. [a 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; as, when he pulled a gun on me, my knees turned to Jell-O..
"Jell-O was originally a trademark and is still protected by trademark law, but is often used as one word, uncapitalized in informal writing."
[WordNet 1.5]
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