Definition of Throat sweetbread

1. Noun. Edible thymus gland of an animal.

Exact synonyms: Neck Sweetbread
Generic synonyms: Organs, Variety Meat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Throat Sweetbread

thriving
thrivingly
thrivingness
thrivings
thrix
thrix annulata
thro
thro'
throat
throat-boll
throat distemper
throat infection
throat latch
throat protector
throat sweetbread (current term)
throatband
throatbands
throate
throated
throatier
throatiest
throatily
throatiness
throatinesses
throating
throatings
throatlash
throatlashes
throatlatch

Literary usage of Throat sweetbread

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1911)
"The round, compact part is called the heart sweetbread, as its position is nearer the heart; the other part is called the throat sweetbread. ..."

2. The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896)
"The round, compact part is called the heart sweetbread, as its position is nearer the heart; the other part is called the throat sweetbread. ..."

3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"Cp. throat-sweetbread (also neck-sweetbread), butcher's name for the thymus gland, see NED. (sv Throat, 8 d). throng, pressed closely together; ..."

4. The Medical Times and Gazette (1885)
"... as well as ove pancreas, under the common name of sweetbread, calling the former, bowt-ver, '* throat sweetbread," the latter *' stomach sweetbread. ..."

5. Food and the Principles of Dietetics by Robert Hutchison (1917)
"The ' throat sweetbread ' is known to anatomists as the thymus gland ; the ' stomach sweetbread ' is the pancreas. The thymus of the calf is the one most ..."

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