- 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 - 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
- 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
- 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)