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COFFEECAKE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee

Synonyms:

coffee cake; coffeecake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

cake (baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat)

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

babka (a coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds)

coffee ring (ring-shaped coffeecake with fruits or nuts and often iced)

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