sweetbread
- n edible glands of an animal
- The oven-baked chicken with veal sweetbread and mushrooms that we tried was the highlight of an eight-course set meal spread over two hours.
- The thymus (sweetbread) is a gland located above the heart, at the root of the neck.
- Rowntree's husky baby rats played precociously because he stimulated their thymus glands with sweetbread extract.