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calipees

calipees is the plural 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

Questions about calipees

What is calipees the plural of?
Calipees is the plural of calipee.

Words near calipees in the dictionary

  1. calipash
  2. calipashes
  3. Calipatria
  4. Calipayan
  5. calipee
  6. calipees
  7. caliper
  8. caliper brake
  9. caliper brakes
  10. calipered
  11. calipering

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