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BROWN BREAD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water

Synonyms:

Boston brown bread; brown bread

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("brown bread" is a kind of...):

bread; breadstuff; staff of life (food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bread made with whole wheat flour

Synonyms:

brown bread; dark bread; whole meal bread; whole wheat bread

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("brown bread" is a kind of...):

bread; breadstuff; staff of life (food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked)

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

graham bread (bread made of graham (whole wheat) flour)

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