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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[Probably of East Indian origin, because it was originally a kind of East Indian pickles. Cf. also Malay

kĕchap

fish sauce.

MW10

A pureed table sauce made predominantly from tomatoes, flavored with onions, sugar, salt and spices; called also

tomato ketchup

. The term is also applied to pureed sauces containing mushrooms, walnuts, etc., being called in such cases

mushroom ketchup

walnut ketchup

, etc.

[Written also

ketchup

(kăt′sŭp)

Noun.

Same as

, and

☞ The

lesser cat-tail

Typha angustifolia

Noun.

A liquor extracted from mushrooms, used as a sauce.