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PILAW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pilaw mean?
• PILAW (noun)
The noun PILAW has 1 sense:
1. rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes
Familiarity information: PILAW used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("pilaw" is a kind of...):
dish (a particular item of prepared food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pilaw"):
bulgur pilaf (pilaf made with bulgur wheat instead of rice and usually without meat)
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