| NOUN | food | hard candy | candy that is brittle |
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| Meaning | candy that is brittle. | |
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| Example | "you can break a tooth on that hard candy" | |
| Narrower | barley-sugar, barley candy | A brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar |
| jawbreaker | A large round hard candy | |
| lemon drop | A hard candy with lemon flavor and a yellow color and (usually) the shape of a lemon | |
| sourball | round piece of tart hard candy | |
| Broader | candy, confect | A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts |
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