venison(n = noun.food) - meat from a deer used as food;
is a kind of game
1. Beasts of the chase. Fabyan. [1913 Webster]
2. Formerly, the flesh of any of the edible beasts of the chase, also of game birds; now, the flesh of animals of the deer kind exclusively. [1913 Webster]
venison, n. a deer's flesh as food.
Etymology:
ME f. OF veneso(u)n f. L venatio -onis hunting f. venari to hunt
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