breadbasket

1. (agriculture) A region which has favourable conditions to produce a large quantity of grain or, by extension, other food products; a food bowl.Examples: "[I]t is worth noting that if global warming produces a migration of the earth's breadbaskets, then it might damage one country's agriculture, while benefiting another's."; "Canada at the turn of the century had become the breadbasket of the British Empire and industrialised Europe and wheat grown on the prairies was consolidated in elevator at Fort William, Ontario to await shipment overseas."Synonyms: granary

2. (humorous) The abdomen or stomach, especially as a vulnerable part of the body in an attack.Examples: "Tom Oliver thought he'd a very heavy stake in this here affair, as he was to fight Shelton, on the 23d, for a hundred. […] (Give it them, Tom! hit them in the bread-basket!)"; "[S]ince you've been ill I've been eating your pork and drinking your grog, which latter can't be too plentiful in the Bay of Biscay. And now that I've cured you, you'll be tucking all that into your own little breadbasket, so that I'm no gainer, […]"Synonyms: dumpling-depot, victualling-officehumorous