BACON AND EGGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bacon and eggs mean? 

• BACON AND EGGS (noun)
  The noun BACON AND EGGS has 2 senses:

1. European forage plant having claw-shaped pods introduced in America

2. eggs (fried or scrambled) served with bacon

  Familiarity information: BACON AND EGGS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BACON AND EGGS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

European forage plant having claw-shaped pods introduced in America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

babies' slippers; bacon and eggs; bird's foot clover; bird's foot trefoil; Lotus corniculatus

Hypernyms ("bacon and eggs" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Holonyms ("bacon and eggs" is a member of...):

genus Lotus; Lotus (annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Eggs (fried or scrambled) served with bacon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("bacon and eggs" is a kind of...):

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

 Context examples 

I'm a plain man; rum and bacon and eggs is what I want, and that head up there for to watch ships off.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)