spring roll

Meaning

  1. A type of savoury food consisting of shredded vegetables wrapped in a pancake made from rice flour and then fried.
  2. (US) An egg roll.
  3. summer roll

Etymology

Calque of Chinese 春捲 /春卷 (chūnjuǎn, literally “vernal/spring-time spool”), equivalent to spring + roll.

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