VARIETY MEAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does variety meat mean? 

• VARIETY MEAT (noun)
  The noun VARIETY MEAT has 1 sense:

1. edible viscera of a butchered animal

  Familiarity information: VARIETY MEAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VARIETY MEAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Edible viscera of a butchered animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

organs; variety meat

Hypernyms ("variety meat" is a kind of...):

meat (the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "variety meat"):

giblet; giblets (edible viscera of a fowl)

offal (viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans)

heart (a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal))

liver (liver of an animal used as meat)

sweetbread; sweetbreads (edible glands of an animal)

brain (the brain of certain animals used as meat)

stomach sweetbread (edible pancreas of an animal)

neck sweetbread; throat sweetbread (edible thymus gland of an animal)

tongue (the tongue of certain animals used as meat)

tripe (lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine) used as food)

chitlings; chitlins; chitterlings (small intestines of hogs prepared as food)

haslet (heart and liver and other edible viscera especially of hogs; usually chopped and formed into a loaf and braised)