/kah'cheuh tawr"ee, -tohr"ee/ , adj. Italian Cookery.
prepared with or containing tomatoes, mushrooms, herbs, and other seasonings: chicken cacciatore.
Also, cacciatora /kah'cheuh tawr"euh, -tohr"euh/ .
[ 1940-45; short for It alla cacciatora in the manner of hunters; cacciatora, fem. deriv. of cacciatore hunter, equiv. to cacci ( a ) CACCIA + -atore -ATOR ]