liver
/ˈlɪvɚ/ nom B1En français : foie
- A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions. · Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.
- This organ, as taken from animals used as food. · I'd like some goose liver pate.· You could fry up some chicken livers for a tasty treat. — Nah, I don't like chicken liver.
- A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
Pluriel livers
Dans la bibliothèque
If it’s your liver, there’s the _Rambler_ down in the bay, coaled, and ready to steam down to the Bahamas in two days.”
I’m glad it ain’t your liver.
The attitude had drawn all the stagnant blood to the face, and no man could have recognised that distorted liver-coloured countenance; but his height, his dress, and his hair were all sufficient to show my client, when we had drawn the body up, that it was indeed his missing butler.
A short walk along the winding drive with such sward and oaks around it as one only sees in rural England, then a sudden turn, and the long, low Jacobean house of dingy, liver-coloured brick lay before us, with an old-fashioned garden of cut yews on each side of it.
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