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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity); "`viscera' is the plural form of `viscus'" [syn: viscera, entrails, innards]

Merriam Webster's

noun plural Etymology: alteration of inwards Date: circa 1825 1. the internal organs of a human being or animal; especially viscera 2. the internal parts especially of a structure or mechanism

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n.pl. colloq. 1 entrails. 2 works (of an engine etc.). Etymology: dial. etc. pronunc. of inwards: see INWARD n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

The innards of a person or animal are the organs inside their body. (INFORMAL) N-PLURAL: usu with poss

Moby Thesaurus

abdomen, action, anus, appendix, blind gut, bowels, brain, cecum, census, clockworks, colon, composition, constituents, content, contents, divisions, drive train, duodenum, elements, endocardium, entrails, foregut, gear, giblets, gizzard, guts, heart, hindgut, index, ingredients, inner mechanism, insides, internals, intestine, inventory, inwards, items, jejunum, kidney, kishkes, large intestine, list, liver, liver and lights, lung, machinery, mechanism, midgut, motion, movement, movements, part, parts, perineum, power train, pump, pylorus, rectum, servomechanism, small intestine, spleen, stomach, stuffing, ticker, tripes, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, watchworks, wheels, wheels within wheels, whole, workings, works