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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 seeds
Familiarity information: TAHINI used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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