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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain;

2. an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion;
[syn: stomach, tummy, tum, breadbasket]

3. a basket for serving bread;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Granary \Gran"a*ry\, n.; pl. Granaries. [L. granarium, fr. granum grain. See Garner.] 1. A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornhouse. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence: (Fig.), A region fertile in grain; in this sense, equivalent to breadbasket, used figuratively; as, Ukraine, the granary of the Soviet Union. [1913 Webster +PJC] The exhaustless granary of a world. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Breadbasket \Bread"bas`ket\, n. The stomach. [Humorous] --S. Foote. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

breadbasket n 1: a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain 2: an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion [syn: stomach, tummy, tum, breadbasket] 3: a basket for serving bread