gizzard
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- noun
- /ˈɡɪzərd/
- Specialized
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molleja
- Squeezed by the muscles of the gizzard, the stones helped crush tough plant food before it reached the stomach, and thus aided digestion.
- proventriculus and gizzard
Scientists think the feathers, which can fill up to half of the gizzard, do two things.
- Scientists think the feathers, which can fill up to half of the gizzard, do two things.
- And so although they're completely separate animals, they require things to flush food down their gizzard.
- But in the in the gizzard, it's a muscular motion where they go like this with their gizzard and grind the food with these solid objects in there to help with it.
- You know, like tongue and, you know, obviously tribe and gizzards.
- And do you go to like they have all these packet like, bro, you could get a fucking gizzard.
Examples
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Jory was cutting up the chicken gizzards and mixing them with noodles.
Fiction book (1994) -
In the hoatzin, however, the relatively small proventriculus and gizzard are relegated to a secondary role.
Academic text (1992) -
Take the liver, heart, gizzard, and neck out of the turkey.
Blog text (12) -
The proventriculus, or actual stomach, and the gizzard are tiny.
Academic text (1992) -
At the end of the day, the same man squeezed the birds' gizzards to save the undigested grain.
Fiction book (1992) -
Their herbivorous food habits can be inferred from preserved gizzards containing dozens of plant species.
Academic text (1990) -
Many birds and crocodiles swallowed small stones, which collected in a muscular pouch in the digestive tract called the gizzard.
Fiction book (1990) -
The chef prepared a dish featuring fried gizzards served with hot sauce.
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Birds swallow small stones to help grind food in their gizzards.
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After hunting, we cleaned the ducks and removed their gizzards for cooking.
Synonyms
A strong, thick part of some animals' stomachs that grinds food
A thick, strong stomach in birds and reptiles that grinds food
Idioms
How Muscular
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gizzard comes from an old French word gésier, which meant 'stomach'. A helpful image is a bird's strong, grinding 'stomach' that uses small stones to crush food, which is why we call that muscular part a gizzard.