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mager.

lean, without fat (e.g. of meat or dairy)

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Meaning & usage

adj/ˈmaːɡɐ/
  1. lean, without fat (e.g. of meat or dairy)

    not-comparable
  2. meager, skinny, malnourished (of a person or animal, generally with a negative connotation)

    not-comparable
  3. poor in nutrients or yield in general (e.g. of land)

    not-comparable
Where this word comes from

From Old High German magar, from Proto-Germanic *magraz, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Cognate with Dutch mager, Danish mager, Norwegian Bokmål mager, Norwegian Nynorsk mager, Swedish mager, etc., and with English meagre (through Indo-European via Latin and French).

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