fish steak
- noun
:
steak de pescado
- The chef recommends marinating the fish steaks for several hours before cooking.
- fish steaks or fillets
- firm-fleshed fish steak
Examples
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He ordered a grilled fish steak with a lemon butter sauce at the restaurant.
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The chef recommends marinating the fish steak before grilling it for better flavor.
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To prepare a fish steak, slice the fish perpendicular to the spine into thick pieces.
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I ordered a delicious fish steak for dinner.
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The chef served a perfectly grilled fish steak.
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For dinner, we grilled large fish steaks seasoned with herbs and lemon.
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To prepare a delicious meal, I cut the fish steaks into smaller portions.
Synonyms
474
1.0
A thick slice of meat, usually beef, that people cook to eat
32
3.9
A boneless piece of meat or fish prepared for cooking
3
2.0
A slice of fish without bones cut lengthwise for cooking
How Solid
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a thick slice of fish' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'fish' (the animal/flesh) with 'steak' (a thick slice of meat or fish) — i.e. a steak made from fish. This straightforward noun+noun compounding is cross-linguistically common and would be inferable to an average B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Fish steak is named for the way a large fish is cut: a thick slice cut across the body that looks like a steak of meat. So, it means 'a thick portion of fish for cooking and eating'.