| NOUN | food | edible fat | oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue |
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| Meaning | oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue. | |
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| Narrower | cracklings | The crisp residue left after lard has been rendered |
| drippings | fat that exudes from meat and drips off while it is being roasted or fried | |
| lard | Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog | |
| marbling | The intermixture of fat and lean in a cut of meat | |
| shortening | fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods | |
| suet | Hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and sheep | |
| vegetable oil, oil | Any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants | |
| Broader | fat | A soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides) |
| Spanish | grasa comestible | |
| Catalan | greix comestible | |
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