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# clotted

«clotted» in Mova's school dictionary: **very thick yellow cream made by heating milk slowly…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (clotted); also the past form of «clot» (clot, clots, clotted, clotting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Clotted cream is very thick yellow cream made by heating milk slowly, famous in the south-west of England. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clotted/#m1)

2) Clotted means thickened into lumps: «clotted blood». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clotted/#m2)

3) As a verb, «clotted» means formed clots: «The blood clotted quickly». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clotted/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday British life, scones with jam and clotted cream make a cream tea, especially in Devon and Cornwall. In science, blood clots to stop bleeding after a cut. In descriptions, hair can be clotted with mud.

### examples

- We had scones with jam and clotted cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clotted/#x1)
- The cut stopped bleeding as the blood clotted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clotted/#x2)
- His hair was clotted with mud after the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clotted/#x3)
- Cornwall is famous for its clotted cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clotted/#x4)
- Clotted cream is much thicker than ordinary cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clotted/#x5)
- The dog's fur was clotted with burrs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clotted/#x6)

### note

Double «t»: clot, clotted, clotting. In Devon cream goes on the scone first, in Cornwall jam goes first — a friendly argument.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «clotted» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clotted/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.