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pizza definition

☆ pizza (pēt′sə)

noun

a baked Italian dish consisting of flattened bread dough covered variously with herbs, fresh vegetables, or, typically in the U.S., with tomato sauce, grated cheese, and, often, sausage, mushrooms, pepperoni, etc.

Etymology: It, prob. substitution of pizza, point, edge, for ModGr pitta, cake

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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