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BACON AND EGGS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bacon and eggs mean?
• BACON AND EGGS (noun)
The noun BACON AND EGGS has 2 senses:
1. European forage plant having claw-shaped pods introduced in America
2. eggs (fried or scrambled) served with bacon
Familiarity information: BACON AND EGGS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
European forage plant having claw-shaped pods introduced in America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
babies' slippers; bacon and eggs; bird's foot clover; bird's foot trefoil; Lotus corniculatus
Hypernyms ("bacon and eggs" is a kind of...):
subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)
Holonyms ("bacon and eggs" is a member of...):
genus Lotus; Lotus (annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Eggs (fried or scrambled) served with bacon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("bacon and eggs" is a kind of...):
dish (a particular item of prepared food)
Context examples
I'm a plain man; rum and bacon and eggs is what I want, and that head up there for to watch ships off.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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