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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Entrails \En"trails\, noun pl. [F. entrailles, LL. intralia, intranea, fr. interaneum, pl. interanea, intestine, interaneus inward, interior, fr. inter between, among, within. See {Internal}.]
1. The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.
2. The internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth.
That treasure . . . hid the dark entrails of America. --Locke.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
entrails
noun: internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity); "'viscera' is the plural form of 'viscus'" [syn: {viscera}, {innards}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "entrails": abdomen, anus, appendix, blind gut, bowels, brain, cecum, colon, duodenum, endocardium, foregut, giblets, gizzard, guts, heart, hindgut, innards, inner mechanism, insides, internals, intestine, intestines, inwards, jejunum, kidney, kishkes, large intestine, liver, liver and lights, lung, midgut, perineum, pluck, pump, pylorus, rectum, small intestine, spleen, stomach, stuffing, ticker, tripes, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, works
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