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sweetbread

/sweet-bred/US // ˈswitˌbrɛd //UK // (ˈswiːtˌbrɛd) //

甜面包,甜饼,甜食,甜面条

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also called stomach sweetbread. the pancreas of an animal, especially a calf or a lamb, used for food.
    • : Also called neck sweetbread, throat sweetbread. the thymus gland of such an animal, used for food.

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Examples

  • What about the patient who eats several eggs or consumes a sweetbread or other nuclein-containing articles of diet?

  • And yet she had done her best, and placed before him a sweetbread and dish of sea-kale that ought to have made him enthusiastic.

  • The thymus gland, which lies near the heart and is often called the heart sweetbread, is the best one.

  • The pancreas, which is the stomach sweetbread, is used less often than the others.

  • The thyroid gland lies in the throat and is called the throat sweetbread.