lemon curd

1. 1.

   a conserve with a thick consistency; made with lemons and butter and eggs and sugar

   Synonymslemon cheese

   Broaderconserve

   United Kingdom

Questions about lemon curd

What does lemon curd mean?

lemon curd means "a conserve with a thick consistency; made with lemons and butter and eggs and sugar".

What is another word for lemon curd?

Close synonyms include lemon cheese. 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 lemon curd a common word?

lemon curd 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.