processed meat

noun

Etymology

From processed + meat.

  1. derived from *meh₂d- — “to drip, ooze; grease, fat
  2. inherited from *matiz — “food
  3. inherited from *mati
  4. inherited from mete
  5. inherited from mete
  6. compounded as processed meat — “processed + meat

Definitions

  1. Any meat that has been modified to preserve or improve its flavor through methods like…

    Any meat that has been modified to preserve or improve its flavor through methods like smoking, curing, salting, or adding chemical preservatives; includes (mechanically separated) lunch meat (like salami), as well as hotdogs and sausage.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for processed meat. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA