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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Light-colored meat, especially of poultry.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See white meat, under white.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The breast portion of poultry.
  • noun Meats whose color, either before or after cooking, is considered white as opposed to red, including poultry, seafood, and in some uses, even pork, or alternatively, .

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun meat carved from the breast of a fowl

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