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placenta — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cake noun A sweet baked dessert made from flour, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients.
  • pie noun A baked dish with a pastry crust and a filling, sweet or savoury.

Senses

placenta is used for these senses in English:

  • cake A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
  • pie A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie" without qualification has different connotations in these dialects.)
  • pie A paper plate covered in cream, shaving foam or custard that is thrown or rubbed in someone’s face for comical purposes, to raise money for charity, or as a form of political protest; a custard pie; a cream pie.
  • tiropita A Greek pastry with layers of buttered phyllo, filled with a cheese-egg mixture.

cake — full definition

  1. noun A sweet baked dessert made from flour, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients.
  2. verb To coat something thickly, or to harden into a solid crusted layer.

pie — full definition

  1. noun A baked dish with a pastry crust and a filling, sweet or savoury.
  2. noun A whole amount of something to be divided into shares.
  3. noun A pie chart.

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