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HORSEFLESH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does horseflesh mean?
• HORSEFLESH (noun)
The noun HORSEFLESH has 1 sense:
1. the flesh of horses as food
Familiarity information: HORSEFLESH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The flesh of horses as food
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
horseflesh; horsemeat
Hypernyms ("horseflesh" is a kind of...):
meat (the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food)
Holonyms ("horseflesh" is a part of...):
Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)
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