ENTRAILS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does entrails mean? 

• ENTRAILS (noun)
  The noun ENTRAILS has 1 sense:

1. internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity)

  Familiarity information: ENTRAILS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTRAILS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

entrails; innards; viscera

Context example:

'viscera' is the plural form of 'viscus'

Hypernyms ("entrails" is a kind of...):

internal organ; viscus (a main organ that is situated inside the body)

 Context examples 

But arrived at the spot, they found not only the kill, which they had doubted, but that Keesh had quartered the beasts in true hunter fashion, and removed the entrails.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I was, I will admit, somewhat baffled by the difficulty of discovering an envelope to contain the gas, but the contemplation of the immense entrails of these reptiles supplied me with a solution to the problem.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And mind, he continued, don't bother me with any details of the anatomical process, or any notice of the condition of the entrails: let your operation be conducted in silence: tiens-toi tranquille, enfant; comprends-tu?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)