Sweetbread

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sweetbread \Sweet"bread`\ (sw[=e]t"br[e^]d`), n.
     1. Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being
        called {neck sweetbread} or {throat sweetbread}, the
        latter {belly sweetbread}. The sweetbreads of ruminants,
        esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See
        {Pancreas}, and {Thymus}.


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     2. (Anat.) The pancreas.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sweetbread
       n : edible glands of an animal [syn: {sweetbreads}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "sweetbread":
     abatis, brains, breast of veal, chitterlings, cockscomb,
     foie de veau, fricandeau, giblets, gizzard, haslet, heart, kidneys,
     liver, marrow, tongue, tripe, veal, veal cutlet, veau