spleen

noun

a feeling of resentful anger

a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm

Roots

splenspleen- · Greek · spleen

Synonyms for spleen

livern intestinen bilen lungn visceran abdomenn duodenumn

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