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  • noun device that measures the tenderness of a substance such as farm produce.

Etymologies

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tender +‎ meter

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Examples

  • Mark writes this: Since I was in college at Yale, they gave me the intellectual job, working the machine that calculated the ripeness of the peas known as the pea tenderometer.

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