a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain
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an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion
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a basket for serving bread
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Breadbasket \Bread"bas`ket\, n. The stomach. [Humorous] --S. Foote.
Granary \Gran"a*ry\, n.; pl. {Granaries}. [L. granarium, fr. granum grain. See {Garner}.] 1. A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornhouse.
2. Hence: (Fig.), A region fertile in grain; in this sense, equivalent to {breadbasket}, used figuratively; as, Ukraine, the granary of the Soviet Union. [1913 Webster +PJC]
The exhaustless granary of a world. --Thomson.
Angola has abundant reserves of oil, iron ore and diamonds _ many of them untapped _ and a rich soil that could turn it into a breadbasket of Africa.
The propaganda line was the "golden era" of Ceausescu, even when the country that had been known as Europe's breadbasket became one of its poorest.
Without farm programs the Great Plains, now known as the breadbasket of the world, would be a desert.
The move is in response to a crisis in farm production and distribution which has turned Ukraine, the former breadbasket to Russia, into a net food importer.
The crop struggled then withered on Minnesota's thirsty prairie, the upper section of America's breadbasket.
Its extensive heavy industry and rich soil have earned it a reputation as the "breadbasket" of the Soviet Union.
Department analysts also lowered their estimate of the Soviet grain crop, primarily because of disappointing yields in the so-called Ukraine breadbasket.