CUSTARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does custard mean? 

• CUSTARD (noun)
  The noun CUSTARD has 1 sense:

1. sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen

  Familiarity information: CUSTARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUSTARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("custard" is a kind of...):

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "custard"):

creme caramel (baked custard topped with caramel)

creme anglais (custard sauce flavored with vanilla or a liqueur)

creme brulee (custard sprinkled with sugar and broiled)

fruit custard (a custard containing fruit)

Bavarian cream (a rich custard set with gelatin)

 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 custard.

(Custard Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

I do not advise the custard.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A team of researchers, led by Kim McConkey from the University of Nottingham, set out to study one particular tree, the Platymitra macrocarpa from the family of custard apple trees.

(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

From school duties she was exonerated: Mrs. Fairfax had pressed me into her service, and I was all day in the storeroom, helping (or hindering) her and the cook; learning to make custards and cheese-cakes and French pastry, to truss game and garnish desert-dishes.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)