conserva

conserva
feminine noun
also:
  • conservas -> canned food, tinned food (British)
  • en conserva -> canned, tinned (British)
  • conserva de carne -> tinned meat

conserva [con-serr’-vah]
noun
1. Conserve, preserve. (f)
  • Conservas alimenticias -> canned foods
  • Conservas de carne -> canned meat
  • En conservas -> preserved
2. Pickles. (f)
3. Fleet of merchant men under convoy of a ship of war. (f)
  • I -> or navegar de conserva, to sail under convoy, to navigate in company with other ships
noun, plural
4. Tinned, canned food.

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