debone

Make into fillets

To debone is to remove the bones from meat, poultry, or fish before cooking or serving: The butcher deboned the chicken breasts.

The task requires skill to preserve the flesh intact.

Deboned cuts cook faster and are easier to eat.

The word is interchangeable with bone, which also means to remove bones.

butchery

fillet

Boneless meat portion

disjoint · knife · cleaver · cut · separate · trim · meat · poultry · fish · flesh

preparation

gut

Digestive tract, or instinct

  • scaleMeasure of relative size
  • descaleRemove limescite accumulation
  • skinBody's outer layer

pluck · defeather · eviscerate · draw · dress · clean · shuck · deshell · behead · scrape

culinary

chef

Professional kitchen leader

recipe · stuffing · roulade · galantine · presentation · rolled · butterfly · pâté · terrine · forcemeat

surgical

orthopedic

Relating to bone treatment

anatomy · surgeon · surgery · sterile · suture · retractor · forceps · arthroscopy · laminectomy · skeletal

Opposites
bone presence/removal

debonebone-in

With skeleton intact

bone · whole · intact · unboned · unprocessed

Family

deboned, deboning, deboner, debones, deboners

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G