About The Word Sweetbread
Learn about the word Sweetbread to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Sweetbread definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Sweetbread
| Sweetbread Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Sweetbread?
[n] edible glands of an animal
Synonyms | Synonyms for Sweetbread: sweetbreads Related Terms | Find terms related to Sweetbread: See Also | organs | variety meat Sweetbread In Webster's Dictionary \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.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Specular ‐ capable of reflecting light like a mirror; "mirrorlike surface…
- Timor ‐ an island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago; the largest…
- Guyot ‐ a seamount of volcanic origin (especially in the…
- Marginal placentation ‐ with ovules borne on the wall along the ventral suture of a simple…
- Genus euarctos ‐ American black bears; in some classifications not a separate…
- Gravitational attraction ‐ (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe;…
- Family endamoebidae ‐ a large family of endoparasitic amebas that invade the digestive…
- Ball field ‐ the baseball…
- Glottis spuria ‐ the opening between the false…
- Vena vestibularis ‐ veins that drain the saccule…