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BUN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small rounded bread either plain or sweet

Synonyms:

bun; roll

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("bun" 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 "bun"):

tea bread (sweetened buns to be eaten with tea)

frankfurter bun; hotdog bun (a long bun shaped to hold a frankfurter)

hamburger bun; hamburger roll (a round bun shaped to hold a hamburger patty)

brioche (a light roll rich with eggs and butter and somewhat sweet)

crescent roll; croissant (very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll)

hard roll; Vienna roll (yeast-raised roll with a hard crust)

soft roll (yeast-raised roll with a soft crust)

kaiser roll (rounded raised poppy-seed roll made of a square piece of dough by folding the corners in to the center)

Parker House roll (yeast-raised dinner roll made by folding a disk of dough before baking)

clover-leaf roll (yeast-raised dinner roll made by baking three small balls of dough in each cup of a muffin pan)

onion roll (yeast-raised roll flavored with onion)

coffee roll; sweet roll (any of numerous yeast-raised sweet rolls with our without raisins or nuts or spices or a glaze)

bagel; beigel ((Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust)

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