"press cake" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: press cakes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} press cake (countable and uncountable, plural press cakes)
  1. A cake of compressed material, such as the cake resulting from compressing the meal powder in making gunpowder; the pressed product at various stages of coal tar manufacture; or the vegetable residue after the sugar has been expressed in beet-sugar manufacture. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: presscake Translations (Compressed material): seemenkakku (Ingrian)
    Sense id: en-press_cake-en-noun-S5d3oeMj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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