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The Collaborative International Dictionary
throat sweetbread

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.

  2. (Anat.) The pancreas.

WordNet
throat sweetbread

n. edible thymus gland of an animal [syn: neck sweetbread]