"fruit salt" meaning in English

See fruit salt in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: fruit salts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} fruit salt (plural fruit salts)
  1. An effervescent compound made up of an organic acid with a salt (such as sodium bicarbonate), flavouring and sugar, historically used to treat various ailments and especially as antacids.
    Sense id: en-fruit_salt-en-noun-rd7bO2eG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for fruit salt meaning in English (0.9kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fruit salts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fruit salt (plural fruit salts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An effervescent compound made up of an organic acid with a salt (such as sodium bicarbonate), flavouring and sugar, historically used to treat various ailments and especially as antacids."
      ],
      "id": "en-fruit_salt-en-noun-rd7bO2eG",
      "links": [
        [
          "effervescent",
          "effervescent"
        ],
        [
          "compound",
          "compound"
        ],
        [
          "organic",
          "organic"
        ],
        [
          "acid",
          "acid"
        ],
        [
          "salt",
          "salt"
        ],
        [
          "sodium bicarbonate",
          "sodium bicarbonate"
        ],
        [
          "antacid",
          "antacid"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fruit salt"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fruit salts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fruit salt (plural fruit salts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An effervescent compound made up of an organic acid with a salt (such as sodium bicarbonate), flavouring and sugar, historically used to treat various ailments and especially as antacids."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "effervescent",
          "effervescent"
        ],
        [
          "compound",
          "compound"
        ],
        [
          "organic",
          "organic"
        ],
        [
          "acid",
          "acid"
        ],
        [
          "salt",
          "salt"
        ],
        [
          "sodium bicarbonate",
          "sodium bicarbonate"
        ],
        [
          "antacid",
          "antacid"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fruit salt"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.