"zester" meaning in English

See zester in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: zesters [plural]
Etymology: From zest + -er. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|zest|-er<id:agent noun>|text=+|tree=1}} From zest + -er. Head templates: {{en-noun}} zester (plural zesters)
  1. A kitchen implement used to remove the zest of citrus fruit. Hypernyms (kitchen implement): bar tool, implement, kitchen implement Translations (kitchen implement): sitrusraastin (Finnish), zesteuse [feminine] (French), Fadenschneider (German), Zestenreißer [masculine] (German), Zitronenschaber [masculine] (German), Zitrusschaber [masculine] (German), zester (Indonesian), skrobaczka do skórki cytrusów [feminine] (Polish), acanalador de fruta [masculine] (Spanish), zestjärn [neuter] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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