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white meat

n.
Light-colored meat, especially of poultry.
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white meat

n
(Cookery) any meat that is light in colour, such as veal or the breast of turkey. Compare red meat
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white meat

- The pale meat of poultry, rabbit, or veal; red meat is from beef or lamb.
See also related terms for lamb.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.white meat - meat carved from the breast of a fowlwhite meat - meat carved from the breast of a fowl
helping, serving, portion - an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal; "the helpings were all small"; "his portion was larger than hers"; "there's enough for two servings each"
chicken, poulet, volaille - the flesh of a chicken used for food
turkey - flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted
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Translations

white meat

ncarni fpl bianche
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With this significant remark the Supreme Gobbler left him, and thenceforward the Pious Person dreamed of himself as white meat and dark until rudely awakened by decapitation.
But the spermaceti itself, how bland and creamy that is; like the transparent, half-jellied, white meat of a cocoanut in the third month of its growth, yet far too rich to supply a substitute for butter.
The native, first placing a calabash beneath the nose, as it were, of his curious-looking log-steed, for the purpose of receiving the grated fragments as they fall, mounts astride of it as if it were a hobby-horse, and twirling the inside of his hemispheres of cocoanut around the sharp teeth of the mother-of-pearl shell, the pure white meat falls in snowy showers into the receptacle provided.
The stone came down with a thump on the white meat, and thereafter arose and fell in a sort of tom-tom accompaniment to the poet's song:
These lizards, when cooked, yield a white meat, which is liked by those whose stomachs soar above all prejudices.
Contrary to popular belief, consuming red meat and white meat (such as poultry) have equal effects on blood cholesterol levels, according to a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
It turns out the red or white meat debate is a draw.Scientists now rule that even that piece of chicken you replaced your roast beef with will have an identical effect on your cholesterol level as eating red meat.
The researchers found out that even white meat has an identical effect on cholesterol levels in the body.
Using a heavy knife, break the claws with one hard tap, if possible, and pick out the white meat, prising out the cartilage from the middle of the claw.
The project will be spread over an area of 70sq km and produce 66,000 tonnes of high-quality white meat annually.
The investment cost of the project is OMR100 million and is located on an area of 70 km square and has a capacity to produce 66 thousand tonnes of high quality white meat annually.