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# marshmallow

«marshmallow» in Mova's school dictionary: **A soft, white or pink spongy sweet made from sugar and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a marshmallow, marshmallows)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A soft, white or pink spongy sweet made from sugar and gelatine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marshmallow/#m1)

2) A plant called the marsh mallow, from whose root the sweet was first made long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marshmallow/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, children toast marshmallows over a campfire or put them in hot chocolate. Safety: toasted marshmallows get very hot inside; let them cool, and keep sticks away from faces. In health, they are sugary treats for sometimes. Phrases: «toast marshmallows», «hot chocolate with marshmallows».

### examples

- We toasted marshmallows on the campfire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marshmallow/#x1)
- I like marshmallows in my hot chocolate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marshmallow/#x2)
- Blow on a toasted marshmallow; it is very hot inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marshmallow/#x3)
- The marshmallow puffed up and turned golden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marshmallow/#x4)
- Small children can choke on big marshmallows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marshmallow/#x5)
- We built towers with marshmallows and spaghetti in science. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marshmallow/#x6)

### note

Countable: marshmallows. Spelling: «mallow», not «mellow». In the USA, s'mores are toasted marshmallows with chocolate between biscuits (crackers).

### In the corpora

- [Burning marshmallow sticks to skin and burns badly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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