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carbonado definition

car·bo·nado (kär′bə nādō, -nä-)

noun pl. carbonadoes -·does or carbonados -·dos

  1. Archaic a piece of meat, often fish or fowl, scored and broiled
  2. Etymology: Port, carbonized

    a type of tough industrial diamond consisting of a dark, opaque mass of diamond particles, used for drilling and as a semiconductor

Etymology: Sp carbonada < carbón, charcoal < L carbo: see carbon

transitive verb carbonadoed -·doed, carbonadoing -·do·ing

  1. to score and broil (meat)
  2. to cut gashes in; slash; hack

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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