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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tortilla/#m1)

2) In Spain, a tortilla is a thick omelette made with eggs and potatoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tortilla/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tortilla/#x1)
- Tortilla chips are cut from tortillas and fried. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tortilla/#x2)
- Warm the tortillas in a dry pan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tortilla/#x3)
- In Spain, my aunt made a tortilla with eggs and potatoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tortilla/#x4)
- A taco is a folded tortilla with filling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tortilla/#x5)
- Corn tortillas have been eaten in Mexico for thousands of years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tortilla/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/5/)
- [Flatbreads like pitta and tortilla are made without yeast; pitta gets its pocket because water inside turns to steam in a hot oven.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tortilla» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tortilla/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.