chicken liver
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- noun
- /ˈtʃɪkɪn ˈlɪvər/
:
hígado de pollo
- For dinner, I prepared a delicious dish of sautéed chicken liver with onions.
- chicken liver pâté
- chicken liver mousse
- fried chicken liver
Here's our first five ingredients, chicken, chicken broth, chicken liver, egg product, dicalcium phosphate.
- Here's our first five ingredients, chicken, chicken broth, chicken liver, egg product, dicalcium phosphate.
- Now let's talk about the nutrition found in liver and this this applies to all liver from chicken liver to beef liver.
Examples
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I went from pheasant under glass to chicken livers and rice.
Fiction book (2001) -
Laura and I, however, are aficionados of chicken liver cuisine!
Blog text (29) -
What if you just fry some chicken liver and beef fat?
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Laura produced a dinner last evening that featured chicken livers.
Blog text (29) -
I do buy the chicken livers, though, and make an awesome pat.
Blog text (12) -
I also kind of want chicken liver parfait or French onion soup.
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So if you like liver so much, do you ever pick up a carton of those chicken livers?
Blog text (25) -
He cuts into the chicken liver and prods around the inside.
Fiction book (1993) -
I happen to like liverwurst a lot and make chicken liver pâté sometimes and like that.
Blog text (7) -
Mama Le's homemade head cheese and chicken liver pâté.
Blog text (27)
Synonyms
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An animal organ eaten as food, often cooked and served
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the liver of a chicken used as food' is directly compositional from 'chicken' (the animal) + 'liver' (an edible organ). This noun-noun compound follows a common and cross-linguistic pattern for animal parts/food, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Chicken liver simply names the liver of a chicken, an organ people eat in many recipes. Because it is a plain, literal name, the term means 'the liver of a chicken' or the cooked food made from it.