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sweetbread |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sweetbread \Sweet"bread`\, n. 1. Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called {neck, or throat, sweetbread}, the latter {belly sweetbread}. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See {Pancreas}, and {Thymus}. 2. (Anat.) The pancreas. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: sweetbread n : edible glands of an animal [syn: {sweetbreads}]
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