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What does calipash mean?

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Noun
  1. The edible greenish material found underneath the upper half of a turtle's carapace (shell).
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Take half-a-pound of sugar, a quarter of caviare, a quarter of calipash, a quarter of millet and six peaches.
For example, who knew that there were not one but two terms for turtle meat: calipash and calipee, which refer to different parts of the animal?
Sedley without bestowing upon him either calipash or calipee.
The flesh of turtles, calipash or calipee, was and still is considered a delicacy in a number of cultures.
At their watchfires they discourse upon the delicate fat round the kidneys as an alderman might talk of calipash.
I was remarking that sangaree and calipash, mangoes and guava jelly, dispose the heart to love, and so they do.

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