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Noun meat has 3 senses

meat - the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
--₁ is a kind of food
--₁ has substances: protein; palmitic acid, hexadecanoic acid
--₁ has particulars:

stew meat; bird, fowl; game; dark meat; raw meat; red meat; variety meat, organs; cut, cut of meat; cold cuts; beef, boeuf; carbonado; halal; jerky, jerked meat; pemmican, pemican; veal, veau; horsemeat, horseflesh; mouton, mutton; lamb; pork, porc; sausage; sausage meat; escargot, snail

kernel, meat - the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone; "black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell"
--₂ is a kind of plant part, plant structure
--₂ is a part of seed
kernel, substance, core, center, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty - the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
--₃ is a kind of content, cognitive content, mental object
--₃ has particulars:
bare bones; hypostasis; quiddity, haecceity; quintessence; stuff