seedcake

See also: seed cake

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

seed + cake

Noun

seedcake (countable and uncountable, plural seedcakes)

  1. The residue of pressing oil from seeds.
  2. A sweet cake or cookie containing aromatic seeds, such as caraway.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for seedcake in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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