shmeat
shmeat noun: animal meat grown artificially from a tissue culture.
Noun (1)
shmeat (uncountable)
- Animal meat grown artificially from a tissue culture.
- His work involves turning formless, textureless patches of the stuff into mass-produced form — like meat sheets, or what one might affectionately call "shmeat." […] So, to recap the opinions on the state of shmeat: It's animal-friendly but bad for the environment; we have the how-to, but not the...2008 May 20, Ketzel Levine, “Lab-Grown Meat a Reality, But Who Will Eat It?”, in NPR, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2023
- The ambitions for schmeat are huge, but the taste evidently falls short of a standard burger. The problem is a "technical bottleneck," Post (whose name rhymes with cost) told the audience at the Riverside Studios in West London.2013 August 5, Catherine Mayer, “Meet 'Schmeat': Say Hello to the Stem-Cell Hamburger”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Dec 2023
- Synonyms:
- cultured meat, clean meat
Noun (2)
shmeat (uncountable)
Synonyms of shmeat
Forms of shmeat
| alternative form | schmeat |
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Origin of shmeat
Blend of sheet + meat. In 2013, the word was on the shortlist for Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year.
From sh- + meat, possibly influenced by shlong.
Questions about shmeat
- What does shmeat mean?
- Shmeat means animal meat grown artificially from a tissue culture.
- What part of speech is shmeat?
- Shmeat is a noun.
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