Search Result for "neck sweetbread":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. edible thymus gland of an animal;
[syn: neck sweetbread, throat sweetbread]


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):

neck sweetbread n 1: edible thymus gland of an animal [syn: neck sweetbread, throat sweetbread]