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INDIAN MEAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Indian meal mean? 

INDIAN MEAL (noun)
  The noun INDIAN MEAL has 1 sense:

1. coarsely ground cornplay

  Familiarity information: INDIAN MEAL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INDIAN MEAL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Coarsely ground corn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

cornmeal; Indian meal

Hypernyms ("Indian meal" is a kind of...):

meal (coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse)

Holonyms ("Indian meal" is a substance of...):

hoecake (thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern))

cornmeal mush; mush (cornmeal boiled in water)

polenta (a thick mush made of cornmeal boiled in stock or water)


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