ground almond
- noun
- UK
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almendra molida
- Another variant of barley water in France, called orgemonde, was flavored with ground almonds.
Examples
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For a smoother texture in your cake, use ground almond instead of regular flour.
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You can make a delicious pudding by mixing coconut milk with ground almond and honey.
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Milk ozyat was boiled, spiced milk, cooled, and mixed with ground almonds; and special ozyat glasses with handles were designed to serve it in.
Academic text (1994) -
"Subsequently, the barley dropped out and English ozyat was made from ground almonds and sugar with orange flower water or the juice of citrus fruits boiled with spring water."
Academic text (1994) -
The recipe calls for a quarter cup of ground almond to give it a rich nutty flavor.
Synonyms
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9.9
A plant like grass with small edible nutlike parts under the ground
A common weed that has small edible tubers like tiny potatoes underground
A plant that grows near water and has nut-like parts you can eat
A grass-like plant with small round edible underground tubers that often grows as a weed
A grass-like plant with small edible nutlike roots often seen as a weed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built from 'ground' (the past participle/adjective of 'grind', meaning reduced to a powder) + 'almond', so its meaning as almonds that have been finely crushed (almond meal) is directly derivable from the parts. This culinary construction is cross-linguistically common (e.g., Spanish 'almendra molida', French 'amande moulue'), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily understand it.
Etymology
Ground almond gets its name from the plant's small, nutlike lumps that grow under the soil and taste a little like almonds. So the words ground (meaning 'under the soil') and almond (the nut) explain why the name means 'a plant with small edible, nutlike parts underground'.