Meaning of jelly In English

• 0 a sweet soft food made by cooking fruit with sugar to preserve it. It is smooth, without any pieces of fruit in it. Jelly is eaten on bread:

  • a peanut butter and jelly sandwich

  • apple jelly

  • I've made a strawberry jelly for the children's tea.

  • jelly and ice cream

  • Frogs' eggs are covered in a sort of transparent jelly.

• 1 shoes made from coloured transparent plastic, worn especially at the beach:

  • Are jellies comfortable?

  • Yes, men can wear jellies too!

• 2 a jellyfish (= a sea creature with a soft, oval, almost transparent body):

  • Jellies are usually densest in the ocean south of Winyah Bay.

  • With the numbers of jellies booming, more swimmers are getting stung.

• 3 a soft, sweet, slightly solid food made by boiling fruit juice with sugar:

  • grape/apple jelly

  • a peanut butter and jelly sandwich

  • petroleum jelly