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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 beads
  2. seed beetle
  3. seed beetles
  4. seed bug
  5. seed bugs
  6. seed cake
  7. seed cakes
  8. seed capital
  9. seed case
  10. seed cases
  11. seed change

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