noun
pork
PORK/pɔːrk/
Meat from a pig.
The board holds raw pork chops beside a small roast.
Etymology
Latin porcus named the pig itself, while pork came to name its flesh as food. English also once used pork for the living animal.
In context
Besides beef and pork fish was another food product that was salted abundantly in our time period and previously to that.
More examples
- This sandwich is filled with shredded pork.
- I don't eat pork.
- The recipe calls for a pound of ground pork.