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What does calipee mean?

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Noun
  1. A food of the yellowish material found inside the lower half of a turtle's carapace (shell).
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Cut the calipee into pieces about as large as the palm of your hand, and break the shell.
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?
The flesh of turtles, calipash or calipee, was and still is considered a delicacy in a number of cultures.
However, this was apparently not the classical gelatinous soup made from the calipee, but some concoction of meat and broth.
Sedley without bestowing upon him either calipash or calipee.

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