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Genoa cake

Genoa cake noun: a fruitcake consisting of sultanas, currants or raisins, glacé cherries, almonds, and candied orange peel or essence, cooked in a batter of flour, eggs, butter, and sugar.

Noun

Genoa cake (countable and uncountable, plural Genoa cakes)

  1. (UK) A fruitcake consisting of sultanas, currants or raisins, glacé cherries, almonds, and candied orange peel or essence, cooked in a batter of flour, eggs, butter, and sugar.

Genoa cake meaning in Tamil

Genoa cake in Tamil

மாப்பண்டவகை

Forms of Genoa cake

pluralGenoa cakes

Origin of Genoa cake

From its origins in 16th-century Genoa as a Christmas cake.

Questions about Genoa cake

What does Genoa cake mean?
Genoa cake means a fruitcake consisting of sultanas, currants or raisins, glacé cherries, almonds, and candied orange peel or essence, cooked in a batter of flour, eggs, butter, and sugar.
What is Genoa cake in Tamil?
Genoa cake in Tamil is மாப்பண்டவகை. See Genoa cake meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Genoa cake?
Genoa cake is a noun.
What is the plural of Genoa cake?
The plural of Genoa cake is Genoa cakes.

Words near Genoa cake in the dictionary

  1. genning up
  2. genny
  3. geno
  4. geno-
  5. genoa
  6. Genoa cake
  7. Genoa cakes
  8. genoa jib
  9. genoa jibs
  10. Genoan
  11. Genoans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Genoa cake (page history and authors); Genoa cake (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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