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'''Venison''' currently refers to the meat of deer. Venison is one of those words like [[cotton]], gay or naughty, that have had their meaning changed with time.

Venison's [[Latin]] root "venatio" refers to "hunting game", thus venison could mean the meat of any [[animal]] hunted down. The word was still being used in this context in the [[19th century]] as "kangaroo venison".