buckwheat pancake
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- noun
- /ˈbʌkˌwiːt ˈpænkeɪk/
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panqueque de trigo sarraceno
- For breakfast, I love having buckwheat pancakes topped with fresh fruit and syrup.
Examples
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On weekends, we enjoy making buckwheat pancakes with a side of maple syrup and crispy bacon.
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Those wide and thin buckwheat pancakes.
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White pancakes for fall and spring; buckwheat pancakes for winter.
Fiction book (1992) -
While scarfing my way through a stack of buckwheat pancakes, I informed the governor of Laverne Willigan's phone call the previous night.
Fiction book (1992) -
The special today is a pig's foot marinated in juniper-berry vinegar... served on a buckwheat pancake...
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It would cook down and thicken until it was mango syrup, perfect for breakfast the next morning with banana buckwheat pancakes.
Fiction book (2002) -
In our family, buckwheat pancakes are a traditional dish served every Sunday morning.
Synonyms
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A thin, flat fried cake made from batter often eaten for breakfast
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A thin round cake made from batter and cooked on a pan, often served for breakfast
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A thin flat cake you fry on both sides from batter, often eaten for breakfast
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A flat round cake like a pancake cooked on a hot griddle
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A thin pancake made with buckwheat flour often served for breakfast
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A thin round savory pancake made from buckwheat flour often from Brittany
A thin flat cake you make from batter and fry on both sides in a pan
A thin flat cake you make from batter and fry on both sides like a pancake
A flat round cake made from thin batter and cooked on both sides on a hot pan
A thin pancake fried on both sides and often served for breakfast
A thin flat cake cooked on a hot pan like a pancake
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a pancake made from buckwheat flour' is directly and compositionally derived from 'buckwheat' (a grain/flour) + 'pancake' (a thin breakfast cake). This straightforward noun‑noun compound follows common compositional patterns found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Buckwheat pancake comes from making a thin pancake with flour from the buckwheat plant, which is not 'wheat' but a plant that gives small seeds. Long ago cooks poured the thin batter on a hot pan to make flat cakes for breakfast, so today it means 'a thin, flat cake made from buckwheat flour'.