Venison

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  • noun. The flesh of a deer used as food.
  • noun. The flesh of a game animal used as food.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A beast or beasts of the chase, as deer and other large game.
  • noun. The flesh of such game used as food; specifically, the flesh of animals of the deer tribe: now the common use of the word.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Beasts of the chase.
  • noun. Formerly, the flesh of any of the edible beasts of the chase, also of game birds; now, the flesh of animals of the deer kind exclusively.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The meat of a deer. Carnal term (sarconym) for deer.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. meat from a deer used as food
  • Word Usage
    "The fat in venison is mostly subcutaneous, not marbled in like beef, so seasoning it has no effect other than spoiling the fat and tainting the meat."
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