sweetbread
Also called stomach sweetbread. the pancreas of an animal, especially a calf or a lamb, used for food.
Also called neck sweetbread, throat sweetbread. the thymus gland of such an animal, used for food.
Origin of sweetbread
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How to use sweetbread in a sentence
What about the patient who eats several eggs or consumes a sweetbread or other nuclein-containing articles of diet?
And yet she had done her best, and placed before him a sweetbread and dish of sea-kale that ought to have made him enthusiastic.
Orley Farm | Anthony TrollopeThe thymus gland, which lies near the heart and is often called the heart sweetbread, is the best one.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and SciencesThe pancreas, which is the stomach sweetbread, is used less often than the others.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and SciencesThe thyroid gland lies in the throat and is called the throat sweetbread.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
British Dictionary definitions for sweetbread
/ (ˈswiːtˌbrɛd) /
the pancreas (stomach sweetbread) or the thymus gland (neck or throat sweetbread) of an animal, used for food
Origin of sweetbread
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