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gizzard::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | gastric mill, ventriculus |
| Type of | pocket, pouch |
Examples of gizzard
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Without a working gizzard, long-range powered flight would have been difficult.
From the newscientist.com
He had a hook in his oesophegus and a hook, line and lead weights in his gizzard.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
Blue catfish along the main channel on cut herring, gizzard shad 25-70 feet down.
From the charlotteobserver.com
It's the giblets, which is the collective term for neck, heart, gizzard and liver.
From the sfgate.com
Once I opened it up, I saw fat around the guts and a glob coating the gizzard.
From the theatlantic.com
The creeks are full of small gizzard shad, and catfish are gorging in those areas.
From the thestate.com
The dressing recipe said to boil the turkey's gizzard and neck and grind them.
From the orlandosentinel.com
When found in association with fossils, gizzard stones are called gastroliths.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Tournament anglers prefer 10-inch or larger gizzard shad, crappie, bream and trout.
From the charlotteobserver.com
- Thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food
- The gizzard, also referred to as the ventriculus, gastric mill, and gigerium, is an organ found in the digestive tract of some animals, including birds, reptiles, earthworms and some fish. ...
- Gizzard is an open source sharding framework to create custom fault-tolerant, distributed databases. It was initially used by Twitter and emerged out of a wide variety of data storage problems. Gizzard operates as a middleware networking service that runs on the Java Virtual Machine. ...
- A portion of the esophagus of either a bird or an annelid that contains ingested grit and is used to grind up ingested food before it is transferred to the stomach
- The gizzard grinds food one more time before it enters the stomach. Other animals (including birds and some dinosaurs) have been known to swallow stones to grind things up in their gizzards. ...
- The highly muscular, second enlargement in a bird's digestive tract that, together with the first enlargement, functions like the human stomach. ...
- The internal organ of the chicken that collects grit and grinds food down.
- GIZZ-erd/ An organ present in the digestive tract of certain vertebrates, including birds, reptiles, and some fish and edentate mammals, as well as various invertebrates such as insects, molluscs, and worms.
- Region in anterior portion of digestive tract whose muscular contractions help grind food.
