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Webster 1913 Edition
Puree
‖
Puˊrée′
,Noun.
[F.]
A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and then blending it or rubbing it through a sieve;
as, a
; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated. purée
of fish, or of potatoesDefinition 2024
purée
purée
English
Alternative forms
Noun
purée (countable and uncountable, plural purées)
- A food that has been ground or crushed into a thick liquid (e.g. tomato sauce is generally a purée).
Derived terms
Translations
food that has been ground into a thick liquid
Verb
purée (third-person singular simple present purées, present participle puréeing, simple past and past participle puréed)
- (transitive, cooking) To crush or grind food into a purée.
Anagrams
Finnish
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈpyre̞ː/
Noun
purée
- Alternative form of pyree
Declension
| Inflection of purée (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | purée | puréet | |
| genitive | puréen | puréeiden puréeitten |
|
| partitive | puréeta | puréeita | |
| illative | puréehen | puréeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | purée | puréet | |
| accusative | nom. | purée | puréet |
| gen. | puréen | ||
| genitive | puréen | puréeiden puréeitten |
|
| partitive | puréeta | puréeita | |
| inessive | puréessa | puréeissa | |
| elative | puréesta | puréeista | |
| illative | puréehen | puréeihin | |
| adessive | puréella | puréeilla | |
| ablative | puréelta | puréeilta | |
| allative | puréelle | puréeille | |
| essive | puréena | puréeina | |
| translative | puréeksi | puréeiksi | |
| instructive | — | puréein | |
| abessive | puréetta | puréeitta | |
| comitative | — | puréeineen | |
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Old French puree; feminine past participle of verb purer (“to make pure”) from Late Latin purare (same sense) from Classical Latin purus (“pure”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /py.ʁe/
Noun
purée f (plural purées)
Derived terms
- purée de pois
Verb
purée
- feminine singular of the past participle of purer