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POUND CAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pound cake mean? 

POUND CAKE (noun)
  The noun POUND CAKE has 1 sense:

1. rich loaf cake made of a pound each of butter and sugar and flourplay

  Familiarity information: POUND CAKE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


POUND CAKE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Rich loaf cake made of a pound each of butter and sugar and flour

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("pound cake" is a kind of...):

cake (baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat)

loaf (a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape)


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