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tor·til·la
(tôr-tē′yə)n.
A thin disk of unleavened bread made from masa or wheat flour and baked on a hot surface.
[American Spanish, diminutive of Spanish torta, cake, from Late Latin tōrta, a kind of bread; akin to Greek tourta, an Attic cake of dates, flour, water, and oil baked covered in ashes, from Egyptian t-rtḥ, baked bread : t, bread + rtḥ, baked.]
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tortilla
(tɔːˈtiːə)n
(Cookery) Mexican cookery a kind of thin pancake made from corn meal and cooked on a hot griddle until dry
[C17: from Spanish: a little cake, from torta a round cake, from Late Latin; see torte]
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tor•til•la
(tɔrˈti ə)n., pl. -las.
a thin, round, unleavened bread made from cornmeal or wheat flour, and baked on a griddle or stone.
[1690–1700; < American Spanish, =tort(a) cake (see torte) + -illa diminutive suffix]
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tortilla
A form of flat unleavened bread, originating in Mexico.
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| Noun | 1. |  tortilla - thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flourbattercake, flannel cake, flannel-cake, flapcake, flapjack, hot cake, hotcake, pancake, griddlecake - a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle wrap - a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla tostada - a crisp flat tortilla Mexico, United Mexican States - a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810 |
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n → Tortilla f
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[tɔːˈtiːə] n → tortilla f invCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995