kidney
An organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine.
Other meanings
This organ (of an animal) cooked as food.
Constitution, temperament, nature, type, character, disposition. usually used of people
A kind of
- excretory organ
Related words
- antikidney
- kidneyed
- pseudokidney
- xenokidney
- artificial kidney
- fat-kidneyed
- floating kidney
- forekidney
- head kidney
- kidney bean
- kidney belt
- kidney corpuscle
Word history
From Middle English "nere".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “kidney” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.