throat sweetbread

1. 1.

   edible thymus gland of an animal

   Synonymsneck sweetbread

   Broadervariety meat

Questions about throat sweetbread

What does throat sweetbread mean?

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

What is another word for throat sweetbread?

Close synonyms include neck 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 throat sweetbread a common word?

throat 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.