Marbling

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A mottling or streaking that resembles marble.
  • n. The process or operation of giving something the surface appearance of marble.
  • n. The decorative imitation of marble patterns printed on page edges and endpapers of books.
  • n. Flecks or thin strips of fat, especially when evenly distributed in a cut of meat.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Present participle of marble.
  • n. A mottled or streaky appearance
  • n. The process of adding such an appearance, especially as a decoration
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The art or practice of variegating in color, in imitation of marble.
  • n. An intermixture of fat and lean in meat, giving it a marbled appearance.
  • n. Distinct markings resembling the variegations of marble, as on birds and insects.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The art or process of variegating in color, in imitation of marble, or with veins and cloudings of any sort.
  • n. Any marking resembling that of veined or variegated marble; hence, any mottling, veining, or clouding of a surface: as, the marbling of flesh-meat caused by alternations of fat and lean.
  • n. The art or practice of staining paper or the cut edges of a book with variegated colors, usually in some conventional imitation of marble.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the intermixture of fat and lean in a cut of meat
  • Hypernym
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    edible fat   
    Verb Stem
    marble   
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