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ventresca

ventresca noun: flesh from the belly of a tuna, which is prepared in oil and served as food.

Noun

ventresca (uncountable)

  1. Flesh from the belly of a tuna, which is prepared in oil and served as food.
    • The choice part of the tunny fish is the stomach (ventresca), which is very tender and of an appetizing creamy-pink color. […] For a salad one must always ask for ventresca.c. 1954-1987, Elizabeth David, Italian Food, Penguin Classics, published 1999, →ISBN, page 13
    • Anatra ripiena is a Venetian recipe for duck, sometimes boned, stuffed with a rich mixture of breadcrumbs […], sometimes some tunny ventresca, and nutmeg, […]2007, Gillian Riley, The Oxford Companion to Italian Food, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 163

Proper noun capitalized: Ventresca

Ventresca (plural Ventrescas)

  1. A surname.

Forms of ventresca

pluralVentrescas

Origin of ventresca

Borrowed from Italian ventresca.

Questions about ventresca

What does ventresca mean?
Ventresca means flesh from the belly of a tuna, which is prepared in oil and served as food.
What part of speech is ventresca?
Ventresca can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near ventresca in the dictionary

  1. ventre à terre
  2. ventred
  3. Ventrella
  4. Ventrellas
  5. ventres
  6. ventresca
  7. Ventrescas
  8. Ventress
  9. Ventresses
  10. ventri-
  11. ventrianal

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