placenta cake

noun

A dessert cake originating in ancient Greece, consisting essentially of layered dough interwoven with cheese and honey.

OriginLatin placenta →
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Meanings

nounplacenta cake (countable and uncountable, plural placenta cakes)

plural placenta cakes

  1. countableuncountablebakingA dessert cake originating in ancient Greece, consisting essentially of layered dough interwoven with cheese and honey.

Origin

  1. Latinplacenta“flat cake”
  2. Englishplacenta cake

From Latin placenta (“flat cake”); the dessert is the original sense of the word placenta.

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APA

placenta cake. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/placenta%20cake

MLA

“placenta cake.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/placenta%20cake. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “placenta cake,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/placenta%20cake.

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