What is "conserves"

Usage examples of "conserves".

Gingerbreads, tarts, marzipan, and cakes, plus conserves, preserves, and marmalades of every type.

This is a salt adaptation which conserves energy, which, otherwise, might be constantly expended in maintaining an attitude in which oxygenation can occur.

The men took turns dragging a cart piled with hampers of barley cakes, sweetbreads, cheese, roast mutton and kid, fruit conserves and other Island delicacies, while at its bottom, packed in snow, were casks of the Isle's dark bitter ale.