EGAVE

liver

About 27.60 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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. noun This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
    I'd like some goose liver pate.
  3. noun A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
    liver:
  4. noun Any of various chemical compounds—particularly sulfides—thought to resemble livers in color.
    He gave his horse some liver of antimony.
  5. adjective Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
  6. noun Someone who lives (usually in a specified way). Someone who is alive: one of the living. Someone who lives in a particular place; an inhabitant, a dweller.
  7. noun Someone who is alive: one of the living.
  8. noun Someone who lives in a particular place; an inhabitant, a dweller.

Similar words

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Word family

liver brown liver maroon livers

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