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STAFF OF LIFE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked

Synonyms:

bread; breadstuff; staff of life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("staff of life" is a kind of...):

starches (foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread))

baked goods (foods (like breads and cakes and pastries) that are cooked in an oven)

Meronyms (substance of "staff of life"):

flour (fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain)

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

light bread; white bread (bread made with finely ground and usually bleached wheat flour)

wafer (thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist))

toast (slices of bread that have been toasted)

sour bread; sourdough bread (made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active)

simnel (a crisp bread of fine white flour)

salt-rising bread (white wheat bread raised by a salt-tolerant bacterium in a mixture of salt and either cornmeal or potato pulp)

rye bread (any of various breads made entirely or partly with rye flour)

quick bread (breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking)

raisin bread (bread containing raisins)

onion bread (bread containing finely minced onions)

naan; nan (leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop)

matzah; matzo; matzoh; unleavened bread (brittle flat bread eaten at Passover)

loaf; loaf of bread (a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating)

Host (a technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion)

gluten bread (bread made with gluten flour)

anadama bread (a yeast-raised bread made of white flour and cornmeal and molasses)

bap (a small loaf or roll of soft bread)

barmbrack (a rich currant cake or bun)

bread-stick; breadstick (a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup)

Boston brown bread; brown bread (dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water)

bun; roll (small rounded bread either plain or sweet)

caraway seed bread (bread containing caraway seeds)

challah; hallah ((Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking)

cinnamon bread (bread flavored with cinnamon often containing raisins)

cracked-wheat bread (bread made with cracked wheat that has been ground fine)

cracker (a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet)

crouton (a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads)

brown bread; dark bread; whole meal bread; whole wheat bread (bread made with whole wheat flour)

English muffin (round, raised muffin cooked on a griddle; usually split and toasted before being eaten)

flatbread (any of various breads made from usually unleavened dough)

garlic bread (French or Italian bread sliced and spread with garlic butter then crisped in the oven)

Holonyms ("staff of life" is a part of...):

sandwich (two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them)

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