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Gizzard Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Gizzard? [n] thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food Synonyms \| Synonyms for Gizzard: gastric mill \| ventriculus Related Terms \| Find terms related to Gizzard: abatis \| abdomen \| abomasum \| anus \| appendix \| bay window \| beerbelly \| belly \| blind gut \| bowels \| brain \| brains \| breadbasket \| cecum \| chitterlings \| cockscomb \| colon \| craw \| crop \| diaphragm \| duodenum \| embonpoint \| endocardium \| entrails \| first stomach \| foregut \| giblets \| gullet \| gut \| guts \| haslet \| heart \| hindgut \| honeycomb stomach \| innards \| inner mechanism \| insides \| internals \| intestine \| inwards \| jejunum \| kidney \| kidneys \| kishkes \| large intestine \| liver \| liver and lights \| lung \| manyplies \| marrow \| maw \| midgut \| midriff \| omasum \| paunch \| perineum \| pot \| potbelly \| potgut \| psalterium \| pump \| pusgut \| pylorus \| rectum \| rennet bag \| reticulum \| rumen \| second stomach \| small intestine \| spare tire \| spleen \| stomach \| swagbelly \| sweetbread \| third stomach \| ticker \| tongue \| tripe \| tripes \| tummy \| tum-tum \| underbelly \| ventripotence \| vermiform appendix \| viscera \| vitals \| works See Also \| pocket \| pouch Gizzard In Webster's Dictionary \Giz"zard\, n. [F. g['e]sier, L. gigeria, pl., the cooked entrails of poultry. Cf. {Gigerium}.] 1. (Anat.) The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium. 2. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate animals. (b) A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks. {Gizzard shad} (Zo["o]l.), an American herring ({Dorosoma cepedianum}) resembling the shad, but of little value. {To fret the gizzard}, to harass; to vex one's self; to worry. [Low] --Hudibras. {To stick in one's gizzard}, to be difficult of digestion; to be offensive. [Low]

Gizzard Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Gizzard?

[n] thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food

Synonyms | Synonyms for Gizzard: gastric mill | ventriculus

See Also | pocket | pouch

Gizzard In Webster's Dictionary

\Giz"zard\, n. [F. g['e]sier, L. gigeria, pl., the
cooked entrails of poultry. Cf. {Gigerium}.]
1. (Anat.) The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in
   which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened
   in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the
   esophagus; the gigerium.

2. (Zo["o]l.)
   (a) A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate
       animals.
   (b) A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or
       teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks.

{Gizzard shad} (Zo["o]l.), an American herring ({Dorosoma
   cepedianum}) resembling the shad, but of little value.

{To fret the gizzard}, to harass; to vex one's self; to
   worry. [Low] --Hudibras.

{To stick in one's gizzard}, to be difficult of digestion; to
   be offensive. [Low]

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