lemon zest

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   tiny bits of lemon peel

   Broaderlemon peel

Questions about lemon zest

What does lemon zest mean?

lemon zest means "tiny bits of lemon peel".

Is lemon zest a common word?

lemon zest 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.