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applesauce

applesauce

15 1.0
A sweet sauce made from cooked apples often mixed with sugar and spices
  • noun
  • /ˈæpəlˌsɔs/
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  • We also planned a canning event to make and preserve applesauce for our upcoming dinner.
  • make applesauce
  • a cup of applesauce
  • a jar of applesauce

Again, blueberries, pears, things like applesauce I really really like for leaky gut syndrome.

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Examples

  • We'll feed him cereal, applesauce, and some mashed vegetables.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • In a small bowl, combine applesauce and raisins; set aside.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Come on and eat your applesauce, dear.

  • Um, uh, I have applesauce I made.

  • I have applesauce cake too.

  • To be honest, I found out the secret to the best applesauce in the world by accident.

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  • How do you feel about some applesauce?

  • I tried my hand at canning applesauce for the first time over the winter.

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  • This is Rachel Samstat, food writer, and I'm here mixing Gerber's Rice Cereal and Applesauce.

  • She enjoyed a warm bowl of applesauce topped with cinnamon and sugar.

Synonyms

apple sauce
vsapplesauce
3 1.0

A sweet, smooth food made by cooking and mashing apples, often with sugar and spices

is the single word form commonly used as one spelling

Compounds

A moist spiced cake that uses applesauce

How Smooth

apple butter
  • US
3 2.1
applesauce
15 1.0
apple tart
3 1.0

Surface Forms

applesauce singular
applesauces plural

Morphology

applesauce = apple + sauce (transparent) = apple + sauce

A straightforward compound of 'apple' + 'sauce' referring to a sauce made from apples.

Etymology

Applesauce is simply apple + sauce, with sauce meaning 'a soft, cooked food', so applesauce is cooked, sweet apples made into a smooth, spreadable food used as a side or in baking.