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Definition of Entrails
1. Noun. Internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity). "`viscera' is the plural form of `viscus'"
Definition of Entrails
1. n. pl. The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.
Definition of Entrails
1. Noun. (archaic) (plural of entrail) ¹
2. Noun. (pluralonly uncountable) The internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Entrails
1. the internal organs [n]
Medical Definition of Entrails
1. The viscera of an animal. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entrails
Literary usage of Entrails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions by Frederick Marryat (1839)
"We took out his entrails and sunk him in the creek. ... This is because when the
entrails are removed, the body will not rise again to the ..."
2. African Nature Notes and Reminiscences by Frederick Courteney Selous (1908)
"CHAPTER V NOTES ON THE LION (concluded) Method of opening a carcase—Removal of
paunch and entrails— Lions skilful butchers—Paunch and entrails not usually ..."
3. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"The small entrails. ROPE- TRICKS, ». Tricks that may lead to a rope ; roguery.
ROPPE, ». The entrails. ..."
4. The Call of the Hen; Or, The Science of the Selection and Breeding of Poultry by National Council of Teachers of English Committee on Recreational Reading, Walter Hogan, Sherman Dickinson, Harry Reynolds Lewis, Raymond William Gregory, Louis Renou, B. K. Hindse, A. V. Leontovich, Arthur John Arberry (1913)
"Noticing the great difference in the formation I secured the privilege of numbering
the hens and having the entrails, as they were removed, left by the side ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... and the distaffs of enraged women ; and that the entrails of Christian priests
and virgins, after they had been tasted by those bloody fanatics, ..."
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