About The Word Gizzard
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Gizzard
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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 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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