Dumpling

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A piece of dough, sometimes filled, that is cooked in liquid such as water or soup.
  • n. Sweetened dough wrapped around fruit, such as an apple, baked and served as a dessert.
  • n. Informal A short, chubby creature.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough.
  • n. A term of endearment.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A kind of pudding or mass of boiled paste, or a wrapping of paste in which fruit is boiled.
  • n. A dwarf.
  • n. Any one of two or three species of dwarf, stemless, succulent evergreen plants belonging to the genus Mesembryan-themum, especially M. minimum, called the small dumpling, a plant only half an inch high, and M. obcordellum, called the greater dumpling, which is about an inch higher.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough
  • n. dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry
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