Entrails Definition

ĕntrālz, -trəlz
noun
The inner organs of humans or animals; specif., the intestines; viscera; guts.
Webster's New World
The inner parts of a thing.
Webster's New World

(plural only, uncountable) The internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines.

Wiktionary

(archaic) Plural form of entrail.

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Origin of Entrails

  • From Middle English entraille from Old French from Medieval Latin intrālia alteration of Latin interānea from neuter pl. of interāneus internal from inter within en in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Old French entrailles < Vulgar Latin intralia, from Latin interanea, from interaneus, from inter. Compare Spanish entraña.

    From Wiktionary

Entrails Sentence Examples

  • Crocodiles are caught in various ways, - for instance, with two pointed sticks, which are fastened crosswise within the bait, an animal's entrails, to which is attached a rope.

  • With a very sharp knife, slit the length of the belly of the fish and remove the entrails.

  • He imagined opening it and letting out a nexus of multi-coloured wires, or bloody entrails.

  • A favorite method of divination was reading sheep or goat entrails.

  • The seer (roeh) appears individually, and his function was probably not so much one of speech as of the routine of close observation of the entrails of slaughtered victims, like the Assyrian baru (see Priest).

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