meat

Noun
  1. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food (synset 107665463)
    associated with: au jus - served in its natural juices or gravy
    is a type of: food, solid food - any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment
    subtypes:
    • stew meat - tough meat that needs stewing to be edible
    • bird, fowl - the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food
    • game - the flesh of wild animals that is used for food
    • dark meat - the flesh of the legs of fowl used as food
    • raw meat - uncooked meat
    • red meat - meat that is dark in color before cooking (as beef, venison, lamb, mutton)
    • organs, variety meat - edible viscera of a butchered animal
    • cut, cut of meat - a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
    • cold cuts - sliced assorted cold meats
    • beef, boeuf - meat from an adult domestic bovine
    • carbonado - a piece of meat (or fish) that has been scored and broiled
    • halal - (Islam) meat from animals that have been slaughtered in the prescribed way according to the shariah
    • jerk, jerked meat, jerky - meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun
    • pemican, pemmican - lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians
    • veal, veau - meat from a calf
    • horseflesh, horsemeat - the flesh of horses as food
    • mouton, mutton - meat from a mature domestic sheep
    • lamb - the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food
    • porc, pork - meat from a domestic hog or pig
    • sausage - highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings
    • sausage meat - any meat that is minced and spiced and cooked as patties or used to fill sausages
    • escargot, snail - edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
    substance holonym:
    • protein - any of a large group of nitrogenous organic compounds that are essential constituents of living cells; consist of polymers of amino acids; essential in the diet of animals for growth and for repair of tissues; can be obtained from meat and eggs and milk and legumes
    • hexadecanoic acid, palmitic acid - a saturated fatty acid that is the major fat in meat and dairy products
  2. The inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone (synset 113157787)
    "black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell"
    is a type of: plant part, plant structure - any part of a plant or fungus
    is a part of: seed - a small hard fruit
    same as: kernel
  3. The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience (synset 105929717)
    "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
    is a type of: cognitive content, content, mental object - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
    subtypes:
    • bare bones - (plural) the most basic facts or elements
    • hypostasis - (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
    • haecceity, quiddity - the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other
    • quintessence - the purest and most concentrated essence of something
    • stuff - a critically important or characteristic component
    same as: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum

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