Beef: Definition and part of speech

Beef

  1. a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.
  2. n. An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.
  3. n. The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.
  4. n. Applied colloquially to human flesh.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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