liver

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A large organ in the body that cleans the blood and helps digest food.

   Drinking too much alcohol can damage your liver.

2. 2
   noun

   This organ from an animal, eaten as food.

   She fried some chicken liver with onions for dinner.

Common collocations

• liver fluke Noun + noun

From Middle English lyvere, lyver, from Old English lifer (“liver”), from Proto-West Germanic *libru, from Proto-Germanic *librō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smear, smudge, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Líeuwer, Lieuwer (“liver”), West Frisian lever (“liver”), Dutch lever (“liver”), German Leber (“liver”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish lever (“liver”) (the last three from Old Norse lifr (“liver”)). Related to live.

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