English > bun: 1 sense > noun 1, food| Meaning | small rounded bread either plain or sweet. |
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| Synonym | roll |
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| Narrower | Parker House roll | yeast-raised dinner roll made by folding a disk of dough before baking |
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| bagel, beigel | (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust |
| brioche | A light roll rich with eggs and butter and somewhat sweet |
| clover-leaf roll | yeast-raised dinner roll made by baking three small balls of dough in each cup of a muffin pan |
| crescent roll, croissant | Very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll |
| frankfurter bun, hotdog bun | A long bun shaped to hold a frankfurter |
| hamburger bun, hamburger roll | A round bun shaped to hold a hamburger patty |
| hard roll, Vienna roll | yeast-raised roll with a hard crust |
| kaiser roll | rounded raised poppy-seed roll made of a square piece of dough by folding the corners in to the center |
| onion roll | yeast-raised roll flavored with onion |
| soft roll | yeast-raised roll with a soft crust |
| sweet roll, coffee roll | Any of numerous yeast-raised sweet rolls with our without raisins or nuts or spices / spices or a glaze |
| tea bread | sweetened buns to be eaten with tea |
| Broader | bread, breadstuff, staff of life | Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked |
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| Spanish | bollo, bun, moño, panecillo, rodete, rosca |
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| Catalan | brioix, monyo, panellet, panet |
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