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Terms in English 7701-7710 of 8494

thin flank

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Beef cut under muscle towards the belly. Can be fatty and gristly and is usually minced (US: ground).

thin-lipped (grey) mullet

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Thin-lipped grey mullet (US: striped mullet). It has a pointed snout giving it the appearance of thin lips, hence its name. It has a golden sheen.

Thistledown

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A soft, almost spreadable, mild goat's milk cheese from North Yorkshire.

Thoday's Quarrenden apple

[English] plural Thoday's Quarrenden apples

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Thompson's pear

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A large dessert pear with melting sweet white flesh, with golden-yellow skin and small patches of russet.

Thompson's Seedless Grape tomato

[English] plural Thompson's Seedless Grape tomatoes

An indeterminate variety of tomato producing small, tasty fruits which remain green even when ripe.

thornback ray

[English] plural thornback rays

The thornback ray is a variety of ray or skate with very good flavour, the wings and the liver only being eaten. The wings have strips of cartilage running through them, rather than bone, and are easy to deal with at the table as the flesh drops away readily. As the name suggests, the backs of the fish may have clumps of coarse thorny spines, swelling at the base. These are called bucklers. Thornbacks have a range right from Iceland to the Mediterranean.

Thousand head

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A hardy and prolific variety of kale with good flavour.

thread herring

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A species of herring up to 15 cm (6 inches) long with a distinctive, thread-like ray at the end of the dorsal fin. It is found in the Gulf of Mexico and off the south eastern coast of North America. It is used mainly for canning.

three bearded rockling

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Three bearded rockling, onos. A small Mediterranean fish, the largest of which are prepared in the same way as whiting.