neck sweetbread

1. 1.

   edible thymus gland of an animal

   Synonymsthroat sweetbread

   Broadervariety meat

Questions about neck sweetbread

What does neck sweetbread mean?

neck sweetbread means "edible thymus gland of an animal".

What is another word for neck sweetbread?

Close synonyms include throat sweetbread. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is neck sweetbread a common word?

neck sweetbread is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.