Word: conching
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: con
ching
Definition: A process in the manufacture of chocolate in which the flavour and texture is refined by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher or between rollers.
Morphemes:
Affix: conche
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Alternative form of concher. A machine (rather like a rotating pestle and mortar) used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: conche
Language: fr
Decoded: conche
PoS: Noun
Meaning: concher, conch (machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate)
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.