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    teaspoonful
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun teaspoonful has 1 sense
- teaspoonful(n = noun.quantity) teaspoon - as much as a teaspoon will hold; Array is a kind of containerful
CIDE DICTIONARY
teaspoonful, n. 
                                            
                                         As much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon.  In cooking, it is usually estimated as 4.9 milliliters, which is t.                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                    
                                                    "In the 1890 dictionary, it was defined as a fluid dram or one quarter of a tablespoonful."                                                                                            
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