Meaning

• Care, kind concern, regard.

• The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.

Meaning

• Sensitive or painful to the touch.

• Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.

  "tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit"

• Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.

• (of food) Soft and easily chewed.

• Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

• Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.

  "Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children."

• Young and inexperienced.

• Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.

  "tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain"

• Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.

  "a tender subject"

• Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.

• Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

• Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.