OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 452

meat

/miːt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
carne
The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food, or a food designed to replicate its taste and texture (like plant-based meat).
A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms.
The homesteading teenager shot a deer to supply his family with wild meat for the winter.
carne
A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
It should come as no surprise that while the peasants are expected to eat fermented fungi, lab-grown meats and maggot milkshakes, the Controligarchs — with their private chefs — ha…
The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly.
carne
Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
She took her spoon and stirred the melted butter into the yellow meat of the yam.
The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.
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