(n.) A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile, at Donutville USA in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, two men said they were not going to let a little cold keep them from their morning cruller.
(2) In the Noth, the Dutch farmer's wife developed real skill in using flour from home-grown wheat and rye, creating pancakes, waffles, doughnuts, crullers, and so on.
(3) At neutral pH, it consists largely of relatively homogenous, morphologically distinctive twisted rod or cruller shaped particles, with dimensions 9 x 40 nm.
(4) A small percentage (15%) of particles morphologically distinct from carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) cruller-like particles (averaging 9 x 40 nm) as determined by electron microscopy, and previously presumed to be impurities, has been removed from CEA preparations by concanavalin A (Con A) affinity chromatography.
(5) Thus, for the first time the effectiveness of the purification of a glycoprotein has been successfully monitored by electron microscopy, demonstrating that the cruller-like appearance of the CEA particle is closely related to antigenic specificity.