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mache

mache is the alternative spelling of mâche.

Meaning of mâche

Noun

mâche (uncountable)

  1. Valerianella locusta, a small dicot annual plant of the family Caprifoliaceae often cultivated as a salad green or herb.

Noun (1)

mache

  1. (dated) A former unit of volumic radioactivity: the quantity of radon (ignoring its daughters) per litre of air which ionizes a sustained current of 0.001 esu.

Noun (2)

mache

  1. (Philippines) Glutinous rice balls flavoured with coconut and pandan.

Proper noun capitalized: Mache

Mache

  1. A district of Otuzco province, Peru.
  2. A river that enters the Pacific in the north of Ecuador.

Forms of mache

alternative formmatse

Origin of mache

From German Mache, surname of Heinrich Mache.

Compare Tagalog matse, Cebuano masi, Kapampangan mutsi (“moche”). See also buchi, muah chee, Hokkien 麻糍 (môa-chî).

Phrases with mache

Questions about mache

What does mache mean?
Mache means a former unit of volumic radioactivity: the quantity of radon (ignoring its daughters) per litre of air which ionizes a sustained current of 0.001 esu.
What is mache the alternative spelling of?
Mache is the alternative spelling of mâche.
What part of speech is mache?
Mache can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near mache in the dictionary

  1. Machat
  2. machatschkiite
  3. machbagral
  4. machbagrals
  5. machboos
  6. mache
  7. Machead
  8. Macheads
  9. macheer
  10. macheers
  11. Macheke

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mache (page history and authors); Mache (page history and authors); mâche (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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