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bacon
 
Noun bacon has 3 senses
  1. bacon - back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried
    --1 is a kind of     cut of pork
    --1 has part: bacon rind
    --1 has particulars:
     flitch, side of bacon; gammon; bacon strip; Canadian bacon
  2. Bacon, Roger Bacon - English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)
    --2 is a kind of monk, monastic; scientist, man of science
  3. Bacon, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, 1st Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans - English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
    --3 is a kind of statesman, solon, national leader; philosopher
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