Meanings
mandelbrot1
alternative mandelbread
- uncountableA sort of cookie-like hard, sweet bread usually containing almonds traditionally eaten by Ashkenazi Jews and often dipped in tea.
Synonyms: mandel bread
Mandelbrot2
- A surname from Polish.
plural Mandelbrots
- A fractal based on the boundary of the Mandelbrot set.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA sort of cookie-like hard, sweet bread usually containing almonds traditionally eaten by Ashkenazi Jews and often dipped in tea.
Origin
- GermanMandelbrot
- Englishmandelbrot
Spelling probably derived from German Mandelbrot. Compare Yiddish מאַנדלבראָט (mandlbrot, “almond bread”), which may have semantically influenced the English term.
More words from German
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
mandelbrot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mandelbrot
“mandelbrot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mandelbrot. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mandelbrot,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mandelbrot.
Source: mandelbrot on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.