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Definition of Throat sweetbread
1. Noun. Edible thymus gland of an animal.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Throat Sweetbread
Literary usage of Throat sweetbread
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1911)
"The round, compact part is called the heart sweetbread, as its position is nearer
the heart; the other part is called the throat sweetbread. ..."
2. The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896)
"The round, compact part is called the heart sweetbread, as its position is nearer
the heart; the other part is called the throat sweetbread. ..."
3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"Cp. throat-sweetbread (also neck-sweetbread), butcher's name for the thymus gland,
see NED. (sv Throat, 8 d). throng, pressed closely together; ..."
4. The Medical Times and Gazette (1885)
"... as well as ove pancreas, under the common name of sweetbread, calling the
former, bowt-ver, '* throat sweetbread," the latter *' stomach sweetbread. ..."
5. Food and the Principles of Dietetics by Robert Hutchison (1917)
"The ' throat sweetbread ' is known to anatomists as the thymus gland ; the '
stomach sweetbread ' is the pancreas. The thymus of the calf is the one most ..."
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