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SPONGE CAKE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A light porous cake made with eggs and flour and sugar without shortening
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("sponge cake" 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 "sponge cake"):
angel cake; angel food cake (a light sponge cake made without egg yolks)
jellyroll; Swiss roll (thin sheet of sponge cake spread with jelly and then rolled up to make a cylindrical cake)
Madeira cake; Madeira sponge (a rich sponge cake with close texture; intended to be eaten with a glass of Madeira wine)
Twinkie (a small sponge cake with a synthetic cream filling)
