COTTON CANDY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cotton candy mean? 

• COTTON CANDY (noun)
  The noun COTTON CANDY has 1 sense:

1. a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature

  Familiarity information: COTTON CANDY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COTTON CANDY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

candyfloss; cotton candy; spun sugar

Hypernyms ("cotton candy" is a kind of...):

candy; confect (a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts)

 Context examples 

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles cotton candy.

(Cotton Candy Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

But it's actually the nickname for a unique and rare class of young exoplanets that have the density of cotton candy.

('Cotton Candy' Planet Mysteries Unravel in New Hubble Observations, NASA)