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placenta cake

placenta cake noun: a dessert cake originating in ancient Greece, consisting essentially of layered dough interwoven with cheese and honey.

Noun

placenta cake (countable and uncountable, plural placenta cakes)

  1. A dessert cake originating in ancient Greece, consisting essentially of layered dough interwoven with cheese and honey.

Forms of placenta cake

pluralplacenta cakes

Origin of placenta cake

From Latin placenta (“flat cake”); the dessert is the original sense of the word placenta.

Questions about placenta cake

What does placenta cake mean?
Placenta cake means a dessert cake originating in ancient Greece, consisting essentially of layered dough interwoven with cheese and honey.
What part of speech is placenta cake?
Placenta cake is a noun.
What is the plural of placenta cake?
The plural of placenta cake is placenta cakes.

Words near placenta cake in the dictionary

  1. placenames
  2. Placencia
  3. Placencias
  4. placeness
  5. placenta
  6. placenta cake
  7. placenta cakes
  8. placenta praevia
  9. placenta praevias
  10. placenta previa
  11. placenta previas

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