How to sign: the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
Categories: food
Within this category: beef, bird, carbonado, cold cuts, cut, dark meat, escargot, game, halal, horsemeat, jerky, lamb, mouton, pemmican, pork, raw meat, red meat, sausage, sausage meat, stew meat, variety meat, veal
How to sign: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
"the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story";
Similiar / Same: essence, heart and soul, inwardness, nitty-gritty, gist, pith, kernel, substance, nub, core, sum, center, heart, marrow
Categories: cognitive content, content, mental object
Within this category: bare bones, hypostasis, quiddity, quintessence, stuff