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calapee

calapee is the alternative form of calipee.

Meaning of calipee

Noun

calipee (countable and uncountable, plural calipees)

  1. A food of the yellowish material found inside the lower half of a turtle's carapace (shell).
    • The tortoise—as the alderman of Bristol, well learned in eating, knows by much experience—besides the delicious calipash and calipee, contains many different kinds of food.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume I, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book I

Forms of calapee

pluralcalapees

Questions about calapee

What is calapee the alternative form of?
Calapee is the alternative form of calipee.

Words near calapee in the dictionary

  1. Calaocan
  2. Calapan
  3. calapash
  4. calapashes
  5. Calape
  6. calapee
  7. calapees
  8. calaphidine
  9. calaphidines
  10. Calapooya
  11. Calapooyas

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