adjective
- having had the bones removed; cut into fillets
Usage: culinary
verb
- past tense and past participle of fillet; to remove the bones from (fish or meat) and cut into fillets
Usage: cooking
Examples
- The chef filleted the salmon with a sharp knife.
- I bought filleted cod at the fish market for tonight's dinner.
- She carefully filleted the trout before cooking it.
- Filleted chicken breasts cook faster than bone-in pieces.
- The recipe calls for filleted white fish.
- He filleted the mackerel and saved the bones for stock.