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pancake-like

pancake-like

1 3.4
Flat and round like a pancake
  • adjective
translation icon : similar a un panqueque
  • The restaurant makes injera daily by cooking the tangy dough on a hot plate, resulting in a pancake-like flatbread, peppered with tiny air bubbles.

Examples

  • Today I was reminiscing about standing in your kitchen in MN once, and you taught me how to make these pancake-like things, but they are very thin, and you put sugar on them and roll them up.

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  • Sorry, I can make it a little thinner and pancake-like.

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  • The most notable feature of the Fens is their pancake-like topography.

  • The restaurant makes injera daily by cooking the tangy dough on a hot plate, resulting in a pancake-like flatbread, peppered with tiny air bubbles.

  • There are many such pancake-like salt formations on the slope, he says.

Synonyms

disklike
vspancake-like
  • US
4.6

Having a flat, round shape like a coin

is flat and round but usually thicker and softer in texture
wafer-like
vspancake-like
5.1

Thin, flat, and very crisp like a cookie

is flat and round but generally thicker and less crisp
sheetlike
vspancake-like
5.2

Thin and flat like a sheet

is round and compact rather than broad or extensive

Antonyms

bulbous
10 5.5

Having a round, swollen shape like a bulb

Surface Forms

pancake-like positive

Morphology

pancake-like = pancake (transparent) = pancake + like

The adjective is formed regularly from the noun 'pancake' plus '-like', so its meaning is directly compositional.

Etymology

The word pancake-like combines pancake, a cake cooked in a 'pan', with the part -like, which means 'similar to'. So something pancake-like is flat and round, like a pancake.