Refers to the meat from the leg of an animal, especially chicken, pork, or beef. In cooking contexts, it can be translated as 'round' (beef) or 'ham' (pork), but the core meaning is simply 'leg meat'.
鶏のもも肉を使ってカレーを作った。
I made curry using chicken leg meat.
Pork leg meat is cheap at this supermarket.
Chicken tenderloin, a specific cut from the breast, leaner than leg meat.
beef round; round steak
Standard kanji-kana mixed spelling for leg meat.
Rare kanji spelling; 腿 is not a jōyō kanji.
Uncommon kanji spelling; 股 can also be read また.
Compound of もも (thigh/leg) and 肉 (meat). The kanji spellings 股 and 腿 are both possible for もも, but もも肉 is the most common written form.