noun
minced vegetables and meat wrapped in a pancake and fried
• Syn: ↑egg roll
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• Hypernyms: ↑dish
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Chinese Cookery.
an egg roll.
[1965-70; trans. of Chin chun-juan]
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spring roll noun
A deep-fried Chinese savoury pancake enclosing a mixture of vegetables, pork, prawns, etc
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Main Entry: ↑spring
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a Chinese food consisting of a small roll of pastry filled with meat or fish and vegetables, cooked in hot oil and eaten hot or cold
Thesaurus: chinese and japanese foodhyponym
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n. an Asian snack consisting of rice paper filled with minced vegetables and usually meat, rolled into a cylinder and fried
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noun, pl ⋯ rolls [count]
: ↑egg roll
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a type of Chinese food consisting of a tube of thin ↑pastry, filled with vegetables and/or meat and fried until it is crisp
see also ↑egg roll
Useful english dictionary. 2012.