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beef

noun [U] (MEAT)
 
 
/biːf/

Definition

B1 the flesh of cattle (= cows), eaten as food: The spaghetti sauce is made with minced (US ground) beef. People in England often have roast beef and Yorkshire pudding for lunch on Sundays. He is a beef cattle farmer.Kinds of meat
(Definition of beef noun (MEAT) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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