Quorn
/kwɔːn
/noun [mass noun] British trademark
A type of protein-rich food made from an edible fungus and used as a meat substitute.I don't use Quorn or any meat lookalike products - what for?...
- The company is introducing meal-size salads, a side salad, fresh apples and a burger made from the meat substitute Quorn.
- On further investigation it turned out that these Vegetarian Chicken Chunks were nothing more exciting than that delicious fungus Quorn.
Origin
1980s: the name of a former company in the Leicestershire village of Quorndon.
Rhymes
- excruciatingly
- excruciation
- exculpate
- exculpation
- tubercle
- tubercle bacillus
- tubercle bacterium
- tubercled
- tubercle-infected
- tubercle of Montgomery
- tubercular
- tubercularisation
- tubercularization
- tubercularly
- tuberculate
- tuberculated
- tuberculately
- tuberculation
- tubercule
- tuberculed
- tuberculid
- tuberculide
- tuberculiferous
- tuberculiform
- tuberculin