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TORTILLA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("tortilla" is a kind of...):

battercake; flannel-cake; flannel cake; flapcake; flapjack; griddlecake; hot cake; hotcake; pancake (a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle)

Domain region:

Mexico; United Mexican States (a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tortilla"):

tostada (a crisp flat tortilla)

Holonyms ("tortilla" is a part of...):

wrap (a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla)

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