candied fruit

1. 1.

   fruit cooked in sugar syrup and encrusted with a sugar crystals

   Synonymssuccadecrystallized fruit

   Broaderconfiture

   Narrowercrystallized gingercandied citrus peel

Questions about candied fruit

What does candied fruit mean?

candied fruit means "fruit cooked in sugar syrup and encrusted with a sugar crystals".

What is another word for candied fruit?

Close synonyms include succade, crystallized fruit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is candied fruit a common word?

candied fruit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.