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marinara

marinara adjective: prepared with tomatoes, or in a tomato sauce.

Adjective

marinara (not comparable)

  1. Prepared with tomatoes, or in a tomato sauce.
  2. (Australia) Of pasta: In a seafood sauce. Of pizza: With seafood topping.

Noun

marinara (countable and uncountable, plural marinaras)

  1. A marinara sauce.

Forms of marinara

pluralmarinaras

Origin of marinara

From Italian alla marinara (“sailor style”).

Questions about marinara

What does marinara mean?
Marinara means prepared with tomatoes, or in a tomato sauce.
What part of speech is marinara?
Marinara can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near marinara in the dictionary

  1. Marinaccios
  2. marinade
  3. marinaded
  4. marinades
  5. marinading
  6. marinara
  7. marinaras
  8. Marinaro
  9. Marinaros
  10. marinas
  11. Marinases

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