BOTARGO

Etymology

Noun

botargo (plural botargos or botargoes)

Bottarga; a cake or sausage made from salted mullet roe.

Source: Wiktionary


Bo*tar"go, n. Etym: [It. bottarga, bottarica; or Sp. botarga; a kind of large sausages, a sort of wide breeches: cf. F. boutargue.]

Definition: A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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