PitaWordNet Explorer

usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling

any of various breads made from usually unleavened dough

a Greek sandwich: sliced roast lamb with onion and tomato stuffed into pita bread

the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century