PRESERVES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does preserves mean? 

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

1. fruit preserved by cooking with sugar

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRESERVES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fruit preserved by cooking with sugar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

conserve; conserves; preserve; preserves

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

confiture (preserved or candied fruit)

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

apple butter (thick dark spicy puree of apples)

chowchow (a Chinese preserve of mixed fruits and ginger)

jam (preserve of crushed fruit)

lemon cheese; lemon curd (a conserve with a thick consistency; made with lemons and butter and eggs and sugar)

jelly (a preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit)

marmalade (a preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruits)

 Context examples 

You need not be afraid of unwholesome preserves here.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

In the new study, the researchers showed that growing T cells under conditions of high potassium also preserves the “stemness” of the T cells.

(Harnessing T-cell “stemness” could enhance cancer immunotherapy, National Institutes of Health)

"We went to Gale Crater because it preserves this unique record of a changing Mars," said lead author William Rapin of Caltech.

(NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds an Ancient Oasis on Mars, NASA)

This ground in front belongs to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord Southerton’s preserves.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘Why, now that you mention it,’ said he, ‘I remember that my poor father used to have an invitation from him to shoot over his preserves every autumn.’

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A material that infiltrates and supports a specimen and preserves its shape and structure for sectioning and microscopy.

(Embedding Medium, NCI Thesaurus)

Encapsulation of belotecan preserves the active lactone form, resulting in an increased cytotoxic effect of belotecan.

(Pegylated Liposomal Belotecan, NCI Thesaurus)

A sample of air that preserves the composition of the environment at the time it was deposited.

(Fossil air, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

Fired with a housewifely wish to see her storeroom stocked with homemade preserves, she undertook to put up her own currant jelly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Grant hardly knows what the natural taste of our apricot is: he is scarcely ever indulged with one, for it is so valuable a fruit; with a little assistance, and ours is such a remarkably large, fair sort, that what with early tarts and preserves, my cook contrives to get them all.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)