Meat and Root

Meat

Meat noun - The central part or aspect of something under consideration.

Usage example: he dances all around it without ever addressing the meat of the issue

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Root and meat are semantically related in be topic. In some cases you can use "Root" instead a noun "Meat".

Nearby Words: meal, meaty, meatless

Root noun - The central part or aspect of something under consideration.

Usage example: at root, it's a question of the proper limits, if any, of free speech

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Meat and root are semantically related in be topic. Sometimes you can use "Meat" instead a noun "Root".

Nearby Words: rooted, rootless, rooter, rooting, rootlet

special	special meat	special root
actual	actual meat	actual root
real	real meat	real root
occasional	occasional meat	occasional root
Other adjectives: edible, red, roasted.

Depending on the climate, early man would eat either nothing but fruit and possibly fish, or nothing but meat and the occasional root.

Source: Artistic License Paleontology / Real Life
The whole "tastes like chicken" joke is about exotic animals that people don't usually eat, you see, and at root it's based on the fact that chicken is fairly bland, as is most meat from small-ish animals, and it's just that chicken is the kind of small-ish animal we eat the most.

Source: Tastes Like Chicken

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