Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ornithology, the gizzard; the muscular or second stomach of a bird, succeeding the proventriculus or glandular stomach.
- noun In mammals, the so-called gizzard, a thickened muscular pyloric portion of the stomach, as in the great ant-eater, Myrmecophaga jubata.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The muscular stomach, or gizzard, of birds.
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- noun anatomy The
muscular stomach , orgizzard , ofbirds .
Etymologies
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Latin gigeria (plural), the cooked entrails of poultry.
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