caviar

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cav=i=ar

CIDE DICTIONARY

caviar, n. [F. caviar, fr. It. caviale, fr. Turk. Havīār.].

 The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia.  [1913 Webster]
" Caviare was considered a delicacy, by some, in Shakespeare's time, but was not relished by most. Hence Hamlet says of a certain play. “'T was caviare to the general,” i. e., above the taste of the common people."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

caviar

albumen, anguille, eel, egg, egg white, eggshell, fish, fish eggs, glair, kipper, kippered salmon, ovule, poisson, red herring, roe, seafood, smoked herring, spawn, vitellus, white, yellow, yolk