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bread-and-cheese

bread-and-cheese noun: the edible young leaves of the hawthorn.

Noun

bread-and-cheese (uncountable)

  1. The edible young leaves of the hawthorn.

Forms of bread-and-cheese

alternative formbread and cheese

Questions about bread-and-cheese

What does bread-and-cheese mean?
Bread-and-cheese means the edible young leaves of the hawthorn.
What part of speech is bread-and-cheese?
Bread-and-cheese is a noun.

Words near bread-and-cheese in the dictionary

  1. bread-and-butter pickle
  2. bread-and-butter pickles
  3. bread-and-butter plate
  4. bread-and-butter pudding
  5. bread-and-butter puddings
  6. bread-and-cheese
  7. bread-artist
  8. bread-artists
  9. bread-bag
  10. bread-bag clip
  11. bread-bag clips

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