1. a person or animal's intestines or internal organs, especially when removed or exposed: "a priest would find omens in the steaming entrails of a sacrificed animal"
▪ the innermost parts of something:"digging copper out of the entrails of the earth"
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French entrailles, from medieval Latin intralia, alteration of Latin interanea ‘internal things’, based on inter ‘among’.