PILAU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pilau mean? 

• PILAU (noun)
  The noun PILAU has 1 sense:

1. rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PILAU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

pilaf; pilaff; pilau; pilaw

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

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pilau"):

bulgur pilaf (pilaf made with bulgur wheat instead of rice and usually without meat)