Caviare

Caviar , kav-i-är′, or kav-i-ār′ (originally four syllables), n. an article of food made from the salted roes of the sturgeon, .: ( fig. ) something whose flavour is too fine for the vulgar taste. [Prob. the 16th-cent. It. caviale ; the Turk, khāvyār is prob. borrowed.]