"zester" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: zesters [plural]
Etymology: zest + -er Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|zest|er|id2=agent noun}} zest + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} zester (plural zesters)
  1. A kitchen implement used to remove the zest of citrus fruit. Categories (topical): Kitchenware 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), acanalador de fruta [masculine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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