sweetbread Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun edible glands of an animal
    sweetbreads.

WordNet

Sweet"bread` noun
Definitions
  1. 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.
  2. (Anat.) The pancreas.

Webster 1913