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HARD CANDY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Candy that is brittle
Example:
you can break a tooth on that hard candy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("hard candy" is a kind of...):
candy; confect (a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hard candy"):
barley-sugar; barley candy (a brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar)
jawbreaker (a large round hard candy)
lemon drop (a hard candy with lemon flavor and a yellow color and (usually) the shape of a lemon)
sourball (round piece of tart hard candy)
