Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A sweet cake containing aromatic seeds.
- n. The cake left after oil has been expressed from such seeds as those of cotton, flax, rape, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. Residue of pressing oil from seeds.
- n. A sweet cake or cookie containing aromatic seeds, such as caraway.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A sweet cake or cooky containing aromatic seeds, as caraway.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sweet cake flavored with sesame or caraway seeds and lemon
- n. a sweet cake flavored with sesame or caraway seeds and lemon
Examples
“I liked the bit in Ulysses where the guy remembers getting fed: Softly she gave me in my mouth the seedcake warm and chewed.”
“Softly she gave me in my mouth the seedcake warm and chewed.”
“The clergyman also gave his guest a glass of port; but accompanied by an ancient British biscuit instead of seedcake.”
“I didn't want to appear surly, but a word had to be honed mighty thin to slip in edgewise, so I concentrated on the tea, cucumber sandwiches, and seedcake, suppressing wistful thoughts about a pub.”
“Combine the seedcake with energy sources such as cereal grains and residues for best results.”
“Optimize digestion and reduce waste by milling the seedcake particles to smaller sizes before feeding.”
“Sunflower seedcake (SFS) is used as an affordable feed for ruminants, pigs, and chickens.”
“On top of all that, neem by-products (the seedcake and leaves, in particular) actually may improve the local soils and help foster sustainable crop production.”
“On the farm and around the house neem is useful not only as a windbreak and a welcome source of shade, but its seedcake is a good fertilizer - containing (as we have noted) nitrogen, potash, phosphorus, calcium, and magnesium.”
“Although neem products (seeds, extracts, or seedcake) are safe and easy to handle and apply, they are bulky and some samples smell like a dreadful cross between garlic and peanut butter.”
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