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fork-tender

fork-tender adjective: cooked until soft enough to be easily pierced by the prongs of a fork.

Adjective

fork-tender (comparative more fork-tender, superlative most fork-tender)

  1. Cooked until soft enough to be easily pierced by the prongs of a fork.

Forms of fork-tender

comparativemore fork-tender
superlativemost fork-tender

Questions about fork-tender

What does fork-tender mean?
Fork-tender means cooked until soft enough to be easily pierced by the prongs of a fork.
What part of speech is fork-tender?
Fork-tender is an adjective.

Words near fork-tender in the dictionary

  1. fork-marked lemurs
  2. fork-tailed bush katydid
  3. fork-tailed bush katydids
  4. fork-tailed flycatcher
  5. fork-tailed flycatchers
  6. fork-tender
  7. fork-tongued
  8. forkable
  9. forkball
  10. forkballer
  11. forkballers

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