Log in or Sign up

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Anatomy A large, reddish-brown, glandular vertebrate organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity that secretes bile and is active in the formation of certain blood proteins and in the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.
  2. n. An organ in invertebrates that is similar to the vertebrate liver.
  3. n. The bile-secreting organ of an animal, used as food.
  4. n. A dark reddish brown.
  5. adj. Made of or flavored with liver: liver pâté; liver sandwiches.
  6. adj. Of a dark reddish brown.
  7. n. One who lives in a specified manner: a high liver.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
  2. n. This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
  3. n. A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
  4. n. Someone who lives.
  5. adj. Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
  6. adj. Comparative form of live.

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Old English lifer; see leip- in Indo-European roots.

Examples

Show 10 more examples...

Comments

No comments yet...

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

‘liver’ has been looked up 1036 times, added to 23 lists, and has a Scrabble score of 8.