That has not been prepared or treated for consumption or use. Of meat or fish: uncured, undried, raw.

attributive. Designating the skins or meat obtained from premature or abortive animals.

Of meat: from a castrated animal. Obsolete. rare.

Somewhat tender.

Chiefly U.S. Designating meat, esp. beef, that has been cured by being cut into long, thin strips and dried. Now chiefly historical.

New Zealand and North American. Of an animal or its meat: having the characteristics or appearance of a mature male (see quots.).