meat
- noun
- /miːt/
- They say crab meat retains the flavor of what it eats, for which reason they're fed mangoes in the Caribbean, per my friend Anne.
Then use the spoon to scoop out the the avocado meat.
- Then use the spoon to scoop out the the avocado meat.
- This is as much meat as you'd get from a butternut squash, but with half or even more than half of the time saved in prepping it.
- We have Sweet Meats, which is a beautiful blue squash, super thick rind stores for a very long time.
Examples
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So and you can make a really great cassava cake with the meat, among other things.
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With a stone knife, he digs in the shell for some of the meat, but it's dry, chewy, and fibrous.
Fiction book (2000) -
Cut out the meat and dairy.
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I love the sweet potatoes with the meat; it was a great combination.
Blog text (9) -
"Yes, I crack their shells with a mallet and shake out the meat," she said.
Fiction book (1994) -
When they are after conchs, they clean the meats and weigh them.
Academic text (1996) -
This is as much meat as you'd get from a butternut squash, but with half or even more than half of the time saved in prepping it.
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Look for chestnuts with a rich brown outer shell; the meat inside should be a cream color.
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Since chestnuts are about 50% water, their meat will quickly dry up if left at room temperature.
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Open a clam, spread the fleshy pink meat with your fingers, and find something beautiful.
Synonyms
Soft part inside a fruit under the skin that surrounds the seed
Edible part inside a seed, grain, or nut
The part inside a nut that you can eat
Idioms
- Informal
To gain weight and become healthier after being thin or sick
Compounds
Meat from the legs and thighs of a bird that is darker and juicier than breast meat
- Informal
Food whose type or where it comes from you cannot tell, often served in cafeterias
- Literature
A situation that causes a lot of harm and suffering to people over time
- Offensive
A place where employers quickly judge job seekers like products
- Jargon
Buttons or links that hide their function so users must guess what they do
Surface Forms
Etymology
Meat also uses the old root mete and was applied to the soft, edible 'flesh' inside seeds, nuts, or fruit; the 'meat' of a nut is simply the part you eat inside the shell.