| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| quesadilla |
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| SYLLABICATION: | que·sa·dil·la |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  k  s -d  y |
| NOUN: | A flour tortilla folded in half around a savory filling, as of cheese or beans, then fried or toasted. | | ETYMOLOGY: | American Spanish, from Spanish, diminutive of quesada, type of cheesecake, from queso, cheese, from Old Spanish, from Latin cseus.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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