skinless

Thân thiện

A chef prepares skinless chicken breasts for a healthy meal.

Definition

Adjective: - Having no skin: Describes something, typically a piece of food, from which the outer skin or peel has been removed.

Usage

The adjective "skinless" is used attributively (before a noun) or predicatively (after a linking verb) to specify that the natural outer covering is absent. It is most commonly applied to food items.

Examples

• Attributive use:
  • She prefers skinless chicken breasts for her recipes.
  • The supermarket sells skinless sausages and fillets of fish.
• Predicative use:
  • After peeling, the potatoes were skinless.
  • For this dish, the almonds must be skinless.

Advanced Usage

• In culinary contexts: The term is standard in recipes and food packaging to indicate a prepared state.
  • Add 500g of skinless, boneless chicken thighs to the pan.
• In medical or biological descriptions: Can be used more technically to describe a condition or specimen.
  • The biopsy sample was skinless tissue.

Variants and Related Words

• Skin (noun): The natural outer covering of an animal or fruit.
• Skin (verb): To remove the skin from something.
  • You need to skin the tomatoes before making the sauce.
• Skin-on (adjective): Having the skin left on. This is the direct antonym in culinary contexts.
  • He ordered skin-on fries.

Synonyms

• Peeled: Specifically for fruits and vegetables.
  • peeled potatoes
• De-skinned: A less common synonym with the same meaning.

Antonyms

• Skin-on
• Unpeeled (for fruits and vegetables)
• With skin

Học thuật

Adjective

1. having no skin