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CREAM OF TARTAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cream of tartar mean?
• CREAM OF TARTAR (noun)
The noun CREAM OF TARTAR has 1 sense:
1. a salt used especially in baking powder
Familiarity information: CREAM OF TARTAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A salt used especially in baking powder
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
cream of tartar; potassium bitartrate; potassium hydrogen tartrate; tartar
Hypernyms ("cream of tartar" is a kind of...):
salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))
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