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TAHINI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tahini mean? 

TAHINI (noun)
  The noun TAHINI has 1 sense:

1. a thick Middle Eastern paste made from ground sesame seedsplay

  Familiarity information: TAHINI used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TAHINI (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A thick Middle Eastern paste made from ground sesame seeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("tahini" is a kind of...):

paste; spread (a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes)


 Context examples 


Children who recently had had an allergic reaction to sesame or were known to tolerate concentrated sesame, such as tahini, in their diet were not offered an oral food challenge.

(17% of Food-Allergic Children Have Sesame Allergy, National Institutes of Health)



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