Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Meat from wild animals, especially nongame animals.

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  • noun Any edible animal from sub-Saharan Africa's dense forest that is not traditionally regarded as game.

Etymologies

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A calque of French viande de brousse.

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Examples

  • The word "bushmeat" is a word-for-word translation or calque of the French phrase viande de brousse.

    Week in Words Erin McKean 2011

  • Their poaching for bushmeat is common throughout the range.

    Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008

  • I think the word bushmeat applies to monkeys and suchlike, with which conjugal relations apparrantly blessed Africa with HIV & Aids, nice.

    Whats in your food FIDO The Dog 2009

  • They strongly deplete animal populations and notably reduce a number of rare and vulnerable species through habitat degradation, sport hunting and especially through exploitation for bushmeat, which is exacerbated by drought-related food deficits.

    Western Africa and biodiversity 2007

  • In Central Africa, where Wolfe has worked for over a decade, hundreds of thousands people still hunt and consume tropical wild game, called bushmeat.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Even the illegal commercial hunting of great apes and other animals for food - known as the bushmeat trade - would not be nearly as widespread if not for the logging and mining roads that are cut through forests, allowing access to previously remote habitat of gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • According to the authors, the so-called bushmeat crisis is the focus of many conservation organizations, whose advocacy for a "crackdown" on the trade has fostered confusion and misunderstanding about the links between hunting, wildlife trade, livelihoods, and ecosystems.

    Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed 2008

  • Each year, rural peoples consume some 2.2 billion pounds (one million metric tons) of so-called bushmeat from wildlife, the equivalent of four million cattle; the flesh accounts for 80 percent of the protein and fat in their diet.

    Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed 2008

  • Each year, rural peoples consume some 2.2 billion pounds (one million metric tons) of so-called bushmeat from wildlife, the equivalent of four million cattle; the flesh accounts for 80 percent of the protein and fat in their diet.

    Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed 2008

  • According to the authors, the so-called bushmeat crisis is the focus of many conservation organizations, whose advocacy for a "crackdown" on the trade has fostered confusion and misunderstanding about the links between hunting, wildlife trade, livelihoods, and ecosystems.

    Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed 2008

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