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Webster 1913 Edition

Sweetbread

Sweet′breadˊ

(swēt′brĕdˊ)

,

Noun.

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

, and

.

2.

(Anat.)

The pancreas.

Definition 2024

sweetbread

sweetbread

See also: sweet bread

English

Cooked sweetbread encrusted with chufa

Noun

sweetbread ‎(plural sweetbreads)

The pancreas or thymus gland of an animal, especially a lamb or calf, as food.

Synonyms

(pancreas): belly sweetbread, gutbread, heart sweetbread, stomach sweetbread
(thymus gland): gullet sweetbread, neck sweetbread, throat sweetbread

Translations

pancreas or thymus gland of an animal as food

Dutch: (thymus) zwezerik (nl) m
Finnish: haima (fi) (pancreas), kateenkorva (fi) (thymus)
French: (pancreas/thymus gland of calf/lamb) ris (fr) m
German: (thymus gland of a calf) Kalbsbries (de) n, Kalbsmilch f
Irish: briseán m, briseán milis m
Italian: (in the plural) animelle f pl
Norman: brie f

Navajo: alohkʼeʼ
Portuguese: moleja f
Romanian: momite f pl
Russian: сла́дкое мя́со n ‎(sládkoje mjáso), поджелу́дочная железа́ f ‎(podželúdočnaja železá) (pancreas)
Serbo-Croatian: brizla (sh)
Spanish: molleja (es) f, lechecilla f