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grasa

fat

noun GRAH-sah Rare
Food & Drink Ingredients

Origin: From Latin crassa (thick, fat), with initial c- > g- shift.

Also means

grease

Usage Note

Grasa means body fat, cooking fat/grease, or lubricating grease depending on context. Grasa saturada is dietary saturated fat; grasa de motor is engine grease. As an adjective (invariable in informal use), grasa can colloquially mean 'greasy' or 'tacky' in some Latin American dialects, but the standard adjective form is grasoso/a or grasiento/a.

Examples

"Esta carne tiene demasiada grasa."

Natural Translation

This meat has too much fat.

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