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sweetbread
n.
pancreas or thymus of a young calf or lamb that is prepared and served as food
Sweetbread
Sweetbreads or
ris are
culinary names for the
thymus (also called throat, gullet, or neck sweetbread) or the
pancreas (also called heart, stomach, or belly sweetbread), especially of
calf (
ris de veau) and
lamb (
ris d'agneau), and, less commonly, of
beef and
pork. The "heart" sweetbreads are more spherical in shape, and surrounded symmetrically by the "throat" sweetbreads, which are more cylindrical in shape.
sweetbread
Noun
1. edible glands of an animal
(synonym) sweetbreads
(hypernym) variety meat, organs
Sweetbread
(n.)
The pancreas.
(n.)
Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, / throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
sweetbread
Synonyms and related words:
abatis, brains, breast of veal, chitterlings, cockscomb, foie de veau, fricandeau, giblets, gizzard, haslet, heart, kidneys, liver, marrow, tongue, tripe, veal, veal cutlet, veau
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
