raisin
/ˈreɪz(ə)n
/noun
A partially dried grape.As with mashed potatoes, you can also use white rice with raisins as a side dish with meals....
- You will need a chutney that is thick with onions and raisins, rather than a sweet fruity one.
- She used to sort through five pound bags of raisins examining each one for stems.
Derivatives
raisiny
- The wine is warm with lots of minerality and raisiny fruit.
- Mixed fruit and citrus aromas with a candied edge provide even sweeter raisiny flavours that take on a honeyed concentration at the finish.
- Some had pruney or raisiny characteristics - not a good sign.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French, 'grape', from an alteration of Latin racemus 'grape bunch'.
Rhymes
- carbon tissue
- carbon trading
- carbon transmitter
- carbonyl
- carbonylation
- carbonyl chloride
- carbon–14 date
- carbon–14 dating
- car boot
- car-booter
- car boot sale
- carborane
- carborundum
- carbostyril
- car-bound
- carbowax
- carboxy
- carboxydismutase
- carboxyhaemoglobin
- carboxykinase
- carboxyl
- carboxylase
- carboxylate
- carboxylation
- carboxylic acid