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Noun: breadbasket  'bred,bãs-kit
  1. A basket for serving bread
    "The waiter brought a breadbasket to the table"
     
  2. A geographic region serving as the principal source of grain
    "The Midwest is often called America's breadbasket"
     
  3. [informal] Muscular organ of digestion between the oesophagus and small intestine
    "He rubbed his breadbasket after eating the large meal";
    - stomach, tummy [informal], tum [informal]

Derived forms: breadbaskets

Type of: basket, handbasket, internal organ, region, viscus

Part of: alimentary canal, alimentary tract, digestive tract, digestive tube, gastrointestinal tract, GI tract

Encyclopedia: Breadbasket