Meat
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Entry:meat
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Part of Speech:noun
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Definition:the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
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Synonyms:meat.
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Hypernym:food, solid food.
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Derivationally related form:meaty.
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Member of this domain [TOPIC]:au jus.
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Hyponym:stew meat, bird, fowl, game, dark meat, raw meat, red meat, organs, variety meat, cut, cut of meat, cold cuts, beef, boeuf, carbonado, halal, jerk, jerked meat, jerky, pemican, pemmican, veal, veau, horseflesh, horsemeat, mouton, mutton, lamb, porc, pork, sausage, sausage meat, escargot, snail.
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Substance meronym:protein, hexadecanoic acid, palmitic acid.
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Entry:meat
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Part of Speech:noun
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Definition:the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone
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Synonyms:kernel, meat.
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Sample Sentences:black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell.
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Hypernym:plant part, plant structure.
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Part holonym:seed.
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Entry:meat
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Part of Speech:noun
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Definition:the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
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Synonyms:center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum.
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Sample Sentences:1. the gist of the prosecutor's argument. 2. the heart and soul of the Republican Party. 3. the nub of the story.
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Hypernym:cognitive content, content, mental object.
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Derivationally related form:summate, pithy, sententious, meaty, substantive, all-important, all important, crucial, essential, of the essence, cardinal, central, fundamental, key, primal.
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Hyponym:bare bones, hypostasis, haecceity, quiddity, quintessence, stuff.