- biscuit - small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda
--1 is a kind of quick bread
--1 has particulars:rolled biscuit; drop biscuit; baking-powder biscuit; buttermilk biscuit, soda biscuit; hardtack, pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit, ship biscuit - cookie, cooky, biscuit - any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)
--2 is a kind of cake
--2 has particulars: - cookie, cooky, biscuit - any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)