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starter doughs

starter doughs is the plural of starter dough.

Meaning of starter dough

Noun

starter dough (countable and uncountable, plural starter doughs)

  1. A small amount of "live" dough used in traditional bakery to start the fermentation process necessary for preparing sourdough.
    Synonyms:
    levain, mother dough, mother sponge

Questions about starter doughs

What is starter doughs the plural of?
Starter doughs is the plural of starter dough.

Words near starter doughs in the dictionary

  1. starter cable
  2. starter cables
  3. starter castle
  4. starter castles
  5. starter dough
  6. starter doughs
  7. starter for ten
  8. starter home
  9. starter homes
  10. starter house
  11. starter houses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: starter doughs (page history and authors); starter dough (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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