tamale

«tamale» in Mova's school dictionary: a Mexican and Central American food made of corn dough… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a tamale, tamales)

meaning for a pupil

1) A tamale is a Mexican and Central American food made of corn dough (masa) filled with meat, cheese, beans or vegetables, wrapped in a corn husk or banana leaf and steamed. tree →

2) You unwrap and throw away the husk before eating. tree →

sense in the lessons

In food and culture lessons, tamales are made by families together, especially for festivals and Christmas in Mexico and in Mexican-American homes in the USA; making tamales together is called a «tamalada». Phrases: «chicken tamales», «a dozen tamales», «sweet tamales».

examples

• We steamed tamales wrapped in corn husks. tree →
• Grandma makes tamales every Christmas. tree →
• Don't eat the corn husk, just the tamale inside. tree →
• Some tamales are sweet and filled with fruit. tree →
• The whole family helped fold the tamales. tree →
• A Mexican food truck sold chicken tamales. tree →
• In Central America, tamales are often wrapped in banana leaves. tree →

note

Countable: a tamale, tamales. Said «tuh-MAH-lee». In Spanish one is «un tamal», plural «tamales»; English made «tamale» from the plural.

In the corpora

• His friends try her tamales and say they're «bussin'» (Gen Alpha slang for really tasty).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tamale» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.