1.
[syn: sweetbread, sweetbreads]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Anat.) The pancreas.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sweetbread
n 1: edible glands of an animal [syn: sweetbread,
sweetbreads]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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