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fish wrap

fish wrap

5.5
A flatbread filled with cooked fish, vegetables, and sauce
  • noun
translation icon : wrap de pescado
  • He prefers a fish wrap over a traditional fish sandwich for a lighter meal.

Examples

  • The new café down the street serves an excellent spicy fish wrap.

  • I ordered a fish wrap for lunch.

  • For lunch, she ordered a grilled fish wrap with a side of salad.

  • The restaurant serves delicious fish wraps.

  • For lunch, I ordered a delicious fish wrap filled with grilled salmon and fresh veggies.

  • She made a fish wrap using leftover cod, avocado, and a spicy sauce.

  • The restaurant serves a popular fish wrap that comes with a side of tangy sauce.

How Filling

meal
∞ 1.0
burrito
99 1.0
fish wrap
5.5
sandwich
800 1.0
appetizer
  • US
103 2.6
snack
471 1.0

Surface Forms

fish wrap singular
fish wraps plural

Morphology

fish + wrap

The meaning 'a wrap filled with fish' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'fish' (the food) and 'wrap' (a rolled sandwich or tortilla-style sandwich). This compositional noun phrase follows a common food-naming pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Fish wrap comes from the simple picture of cooked fish rolled inside a flatbread or tortilla. Because the fish is literally inside a wrap, the name now means 'a dish of cooked fish rolled in bread'.