English Explanatory Dictionary

placenta cake

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A dessert cake originating in ancient Greece consisting of layered dough interwoven with cheese and honey, along with various other ingredients to suit the recipe.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-placenta cake.wav

Word forms

placenta cake placenta cakes

Etymology

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

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