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callipee

callipee 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 callipee

pluralcallipees

Questions about callipee

What is callipee the alternative form of?
Callipee is the alternative form of calipee.

Words near callipee in the dictionary

  1. callipallenids
  2. callipash
  3. callipashes
  4. callipatties
  5. callipatty
  6. callipee
  7. callipees
  8. callipeltin
  9. callipeltins
  10. calliper
  11. callipered

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