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bean-cake

bean-cake is the alternative form of beancake.

Meaning of beancake

Noun

beancake (countable and uncountable, plural beancakes)

  1. Akara, a West African fritter made from black-eyed peas.
  2. (dated) A various form of tofu, made from soybeans.
    • Chinese white cheese... Foo yue. (a) Cut bean cake, made of Chinese white beans, into half-inch squares ¼ inch thick. (b) Put into a jar provided with an airtight cover, the size of the jar depending upon the amount to be made. (c) Fill the jar ¼ full of Fun Wine. (d) Salt to taste. (e) Cover air...1917, Chan Shiu Wong, The Chinese Cook Book, page 15

Forms of bean-cake

pluralbean-cakes

Questions about bean-cake

What is bean-cake the alternative form of?
Bean-cake is the alternative form of beancake.

Words near bean-cake in the dictionary

  1. bean-bags
  2. bean-belly
  3. bean-brush
  4. bean-brushes
  5. bean-butter
  6. bean-cake
  7. bean-cakes
  8. bean-caper
  9. bean-capers
  10. bean-cod
  11. bean-cods

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bean-cake (page history and authors); beancake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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