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Meaning of 'sweetbread' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Sweetbread [ 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.
- The pancreas.

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