Definizione monolingua

liver

liver (countable and uncountable; plural livers)

1. (anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.

   Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.

2. (countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used as food.

   Id like some goose liver pate.

   You could fry up some chicken livers for a tasty treat. — Nah, I dont like chicken liver.

   • 1993, Philippa Gregory, Fallen Skies, ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-9314-0, page 222:

     ""I should think youve rocked the boat enough already by refusing to eat liver.""

3. A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.

   liver colour:

liver (not comparable)

1. Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
   • 2006, Rawdon Briggs Lee, A History and Description of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain & Ireland, ISBN 0-543-96651-8, page 298:

     His friend Rothwell, who had the use of the best Laveracks for breeding purposes, wrote him that one of his puppies was liver and white.

Definizione dizionario liver

	fegato
	organ as food
	organ of the body
	A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. Responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.

epatico

fécatu

fétecu

Altri significati:

A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.

liver colour:

(countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used as food.

comparative form of live: more live

Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).

Someone who lives.

(pork) liver

(anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.