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| burrito |
in Mexican cooking, a flour tortilla stuffed with meat, cheese, beans, or the like. |
| butcher |
someone in the business of selling meat. [3/6 definitions] |
| calzone |
an Italian dish consisting of a pizza-dough shell filled with meat, cheese, vegetables, or the like. |
| canapé |
a cracker or small piece of bread or toast spread with cheese, meat, or other appealing food and served as an appetizer. |
| cannelloni |
(usu. used with a sing. verb) large tubes of pasta which are usu. boiled, stuffed with meat or cheese, and baked in a sauce. |
| carnivore |
a flesh-eating animal, esp. a meat-eating mammal. (Cf. herbivore.) [1/2 definitions] |
| carve |
to slice or cut meat or poultry. [1/5 definitions] |
| carving knife |
a long knife used to carve meat. |
| cattle |
large, four-legged, plant-eating animals, including cows, bulls, and other domestic bovines, kept for milk or meat. |
| chicken |
the common farm fowl, kept for its meat and eggs. [2/4 definitions] |
| chine |
a cut of meat that includes all or part of an animal's backbone. [1/4 definitions] |
| chop1 |
a portion or thick slice, esp. of meat. [1/8 definitions] |
| chopper |
a short tool with a sharp blade, used for cutting meat. [1/3 definitions] |
| chop suey |
a Chinese-American dish of bean sprouts, other vegetables, and small bits of meat, chicken, or fish cooked and poured over rice. |
| chow mein |
a Chinese-American dish of stewed bean sprouts, other vegetables, and bits of chicken, seafood, or meat, poured over fried noodles. |
| club sandwich |
a sandwich of three or more layers of bread, often toasted, that is filled with layers of meat, cheese, tomato, mayonnaise, and the like. |
| coconut oil |
a white oil obtained from dried coconut meat, used in cooking and in the manufacture of soaps, cosmetics, candles, and the like. |
| cold cuts |
slices of various meats, meat products, and cheeses, served at room temperature. |
| consommé |
a clear broth made from meat or occasionally vegetables. |
| cow1 |
an adult female of a bovine animal, esp. the domestic farm animal kept or raised for its milk or meat. [1/2 definitions] |
| crab1 |
any of various ten-legged marine crustaceans, having broad, flat bodies, eyes on short stalks, and strong pincers on the front legs. The meat of some kinds of crabs is commonly eaten by humans. [2/8 definitions] |
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