[mawr-tuh-del-uh] 
| a large Italian sausage of pork, beef, and pork fat chopped fine, seasoned with garlic and pepper, cooked, and smoked. |
| mor·ta·del·la (môr'tə-děl'ə) n. A smoked Italian sausage made of ground pork and beef and cubes of pork fat, flavored with wine and spices. [Italian, feminine diminutive of murtato, seasoned with myrtle berries, from Latin myrtātus, murtātus, from myrtus, myrta, myrtle; see myrtle.] |