BREADBASKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breadbasket mean? 

• BREADBASKET (noun)
  The noun BREADBASKET has 3 senses:

1. a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain

2. an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion

3. a basket for serving bread

  Familiarity information: BREADBASKET used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREADBASKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A geographic region serving as the principal source of grain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

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

region (a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

breadbasket; stomach; tum; tummy

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "breadbasket"):

arteria gastrica; gastric artery (the arteries that supply the walls of the stomach)

gastric vein; vena gastrica (one of several veins draining the stomach walls)

gastroepiploic vein; gastroomental vein; vena gastroomentalis (one of two veins serving the great curvature of the stomach)

epigastric fossa; pit of the stomach (a slight depression in the midline just below the sternum (where a blow can affect the solar plexus))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "breadbasket"):

craw; crop (a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food)

first stomach; rumen (the first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing)

reticulum; second stomach (the second compartment of the stomach of a ruminant)

omasum; psalterium; third stomach (the third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant)

abomasum; fourth stomach (the fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the one where digestion takes place)

Holonyms ("breadbasket" is a part of...):

alimentary canal; alimentary tract; digestive tract; digestive tube; gastrointestinal tract; GI tract (tubular passage of mucous membrane and muscle extending about 8.3 meters from mouth to anus; functions in digestion and elimination)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A basket for serving bread

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

basket; handbasket (a container that is usually woven and has handles)

 Context examples 

The findings contradict the long-held assumption that crop failures in geographically distant breadbasket nations such as the United States, China and Argentina are unrelated.

(El Niño linked to widespread crop failures, SciDev.Net)