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black bean sauce

black bean sauce noun: an Asian sauce made with fermented and salted black soybeans.

black bean sauce: an Asian sauce made with fermented and salted black soybeans
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Noun

black bean sauce (countable and uncountable, plural black bean sauces)

  1. An Asian sauce made with fermented and salted black soybeans.

Forms of black bean sauce

pluralblack bean sauces
alternative formblack-bean sauce

Origin of black bean sauce

Calque of Chinese 豆豉醬 /豆豉酱 (dòuchǐjiàng, “black bean sauce”)

Questions about black bean sauce

What does black bean sauce mean?
Black bean sauce means an Asian sauce made with fermented and salted black soybeans.
What part of speech is black bean sauce?
Black bean sauce is a noun.
What is the plural of black bean sauce?
The plural of black bean sauce is black bean sauces.

Words near black bean sauce in the dictionary

  1. black bass
  2. black basses
  3. black bean
  4. black bean aphid
  5. black bean aphids
  6. black bean sauce
  7. black bean sauces
  8. black beans
  9. black bear
  10. black bearded saki
  11. black bearded sakis

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