meat
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(noun) the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food |
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Related Words: beef, bird, boeuf, carbonado, cold cuts, cut, cut of meat, dark meat, escargot, food product, foodstuff, fowl, game, horseflesh, horsemeat, jerked meat, jerky, lamb, mouton, mutton, organs, pemmican, porc, pork, raw meat, sausage, sausage meat, snail, stew meat, variety meat, veal, veau |
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(noun) the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone: "black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell" |
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Synonyms: kernel |
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Related Words: plant part |
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(noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience: "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the nub of the story" |
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Synonyms: center, core, essence, gist, heart, inwardness, kernel, marrow, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
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Related Words: cognitive content, content, hypostasis, mental object, quintessence, stuff |
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