belly sweetbread

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belly sweetbread - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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     2. (Anat.) The pancreas.
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