bushmeat

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English

Etymology

From bush +‎ meat, as a calque of French viande de brousse.

Noun

bushmeat (usually uncountable, plural bushmeats)

  1. Any edible animal from sub-Saharan Africa's dense forest that is not traditionally regarded as game.

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