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seed-cake

seed-cake is the alternative form of seedcake.

Meaning of seedcake

Noun

seedcake (countable and uncountable, plural seedcakes)

  1. The residue of pressing oil from seeds.
  2. A sweet cake, cookie or cracker containing aromatic seeds, especially caraway.
    • Remember thou therefore, though I do it not,
      The seed-cake, the pasties, and furmenty pot1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […]...

Forms of seed-cake

pluralseed-cakes

Questions about seed-cake

What is seed-cake the alternative form of?
Seed-cake is the alternative form of seedcake.

Words near seed-cake in the dictionary

  1. seed-bird
  2. seed-birds
  3. seed-borne
  4. seed-bud
  5. seed-buds
  6. seed-cake
  7. seed-cakes
  8. seed-drill
  9. seed-drills
  10. seed-faith
  11. seed-lobe

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