baking-powder biscuit

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   leavened with baking powder

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Questions about baking-powder biscuit

What does baking-powder biscuit mean?

baking-powder biscuit means "leavened with baking powder".

Is baking-powder biscuit a common word?

baking-powder biscuit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.