ENTRAILS


Meaning of ENTRAILS in English

/en"traylz, -treuhlz/ , n.pl.

1. the internal parts of the trunk of an animal body.

2. the intestines.

3. the internal parts of anything: the entrails of a machine.

[ 1250-1300; ME entrailles interalia (cf. early ML intralia ), alter., by suffix change (see -AL 1 ), of L interanea guts, neut. pl. of INTERANEUS; see inter-, -AN, -EOUS ]

Syn . viscera, intestines, insides, innards, guts.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .