tortilla

«tortilla» in Mova's school dictionary: a thin, flat, round bread made from maize (corn) or wheat… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a tortilla, tortillas)

meaning for a pupil

1) A tortilla is a thin, flat, round bread made from maize (corn) or wheat flour, from Mexico, used for tacos, wraps and burritos. tree →

2) In Spain, a tortilla is a thick omelette made with eggs and potatoes. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life it is a common food in school lunches, wraps and Mexican-style meals. In geography and food lessons it shows how food words travel and change between countries. Phrases: tortilla wrap, tortilla chips, corn tortilla, Spanish tortilla.

examples

• I had a chicken wrap in a tortilla for lunch. tree →
• Tortilla chips are cut from tortillas and fried. tree →
• Warm the tortillas in a dry pan. tree →
• In Spain, my aunt made a tortilla with eggs and potatoes. tree →
• A taco is a folded tortilla with filling. tree →
• Corn tortillas have been eaten in Mexico for thousands of years. tree →

note

Countable: one tortilla, two tortillas. Said tor-TEE-ya; the double l sounds like y. Trap: a Spanish tortilla is not the same as a Mexican tortilla.

In the corpora

• Not all bread needs yeast: pitta and tortillas are flat, and pitta puffs up only because water inside turns to steam.
• Flatbreads like pitta and tortilla are made without yeast; pitta gets its pocket because water inside turns to steam in a hot oven.

Trees and pragmatics

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