oxtail

3 4.8

Meat from the tail of a cow used in soups and stews

noun
/ˈɑkˌteɪl/

: rabo de buey

Steak and kidney pie and oxtail and roast beef.
oxtail soup
oxtail stew
braised oxtail

My absolute favorite meal to cook is oxtail rice and peas and fried plantain.

Examples

Now, if you will excuse me, I have to stir the pasta sauce with pork hocks and oxtails.

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For a rich and hearty meal, I love to prepare an oxtail stew with vegetables.
It's like oxtail and peanut sauce.
Then the last is the goat, the oxtail done slightly similar to the goat.
So I'm so excited today to be making my version of oxtail cocoa bread.
My mother went to the stove and dipped up a bowl of oxtail stew.

Fiction book (1994)
My absolute favorite meal to cook is oxtail rice and peas and fried plantain.

Harper's BAZAAR
Oxtail Soup, Mmm!

How About You... (2007)
Heat the oil and butter in the enormous ceramic pot, dredge the meat in the flour, and then fry in batches including the oxtail.

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And with soft and tender oxtail that is slowly cooked in the broth for a full day, that's as close to perfecto as you can get.

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Compounds

oxtail soup

3.2

A soup made by cooking the tail of a cow slowly with vegetables

Surface Forms

oxtail singular

oxtails plural

Morphology

oxtail = ox + tail (semi-transparent) = ox + tail

While the components 'ox' and 'tail' are clear, the specific culinary use of 'oxtail' is not immediately obvious from the parts.

Etymology

The word oxtail comes from ox ('a male cow') and tail ('the part at the back of an animal'). So it literally means the tail of an ox, which is the cut of meat often used to make rich soups and stews.