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プリン — meaning in English

purin

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English meaning

  • flan noun A baked custard dessert, often topped with caramel sauce, popular across Spain and Latin America.
  • pudding noun A soft, sweet dessert, often milk- or egg-based, cooked or set until thick and creamy.

Senses

プリン is used for these senses in English:

  • Jigglypuff (sometimes, _, attributive) Something that resembles the Pokémon Jigglypuff, e.g. by being rotund, bright pink, or able to induce sleep.
  • flan (chiefly, US, Belize) A dessert of congealed custard, often topped with caramel, especially popular in Spanish-speaking countries.
  • purine (organic compound) Any of a class of organic heterocyclic compounds, composed of fused pyrimidine and imidazole rings, that constitute one of the two groups of organic nitrogenous bases (the other being the pyrimidines) and are components of nucleic acids.

flan — full definition

  1. noun A baked custard dessert, often topped with caramel sauce, popular across Spain and Latin America.
  2. noun (British) An open pastry or sponge case filled with a sweet or savory filling.

pudding — full definition

  1. noun A soft, sweet dessert, often milk- or egg-based, cooked or set until thick and creamy.
  2. noun In British English, the dessert course of a meal generally, regardless of what it actually is.
  3. noun A savoury dish, often a type of sausage, made from ingredients such as blood, suet, or meat encased and boiled or steamed.

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