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horseflesh

horseflesh noun: the flesh of a horse; horsemeat.

Noun

horseflesh (uncountable)

  1. The flesh of a horse; horsemeat.
    • Do they take to the cooking of horseflesh in ragoûts, emincés, and cheval à la mode without a tinge of disgust?1870 December 10, “The Ombibus Dinner”, in Charles Dickens, Jun., editor, All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal., volume V, London: […] Messrs. Chapman and Hall, […], published 1871, page 43, column 1
  2. Horses collectively, with reference to driving, riding, or racing.
    • He is a good judge of horseflesh.
  3. Bahama mahogany, wood from species Lysiloma sabicu and Lysiloma latisiliquum.

Adjective

horseflesh (comparative more horseflesh, superlative most horseflesh)

  1. Of the colour of horseflesh; of a peculiar reddish-brown hue.

horseflesh meaning in Kannada

horseflesh in Kannada

ಕುದುರೆ ಮಾಂಸ, ಕುದುರೆಗಳು

Forms of horseflesh

Noun
alternative formhorse-flesh
Adjective
comparativemore horseflesh
superlativemost horseflesh

Origin of horseflesh

From horse + flesh.

Words formed from horseflesh

Questions about horseflesh

What does horseflesh mean?
Horseflesh means the flesh of a horse; horsemeat.
What is horseflesh in Kannada?
Horseflesh in Kannada is ಕುದುರೆ ಮಾಂಸ, ಕುದುರೆಗಳು. See Horseflesh meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is horseflesh?
Horseflesh can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near horseflesh in the dictionary

  1. horsefeet
  2. Horsefield
  3. Horsefields
  4. horsefish
  5. horsefishes
  6. horseflesh
  7. horseflesh ore
  8. horseflies
  9. horsefly
  10. horsefolk
  11. horsefoot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: horseflesh (page history and authors); horseflesh (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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