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raisin
[C] Countable
pl: raisins
The word evokes a sense of concentrated sweetness and a shriveled, chewy texture. It is almost exclusively associated with baking, snacking, or breakfast cereals, carrying a domestic and wholesome connotation. In a social or descriptive sense, the word is often used to describe wrinkled skin, particularly on the fingertips after long exposure to water, linking the physical state of the fruit to human anatomy.
Countable when referring to the individual dried fruits ('I ate ten raisins').