Definition of Gizzard
1. Noun. Thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food.
Definition of Gizzard
1. n. 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.
Definition of Gizzard
1. a digestive organ [n -S]
Medical Definition of Gizzard
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1. 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 oesophagus; the gigerium.
2. A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate animals. A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks.
3. Gizzard shad, 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. To stick in one's gizzard, to be difficult of digestion; to be offensive.
Origin: F. Gesier, L. Gigeria, pl, the cooked entrails of poultry. Cf. Gigerium.
(19 Mar 1998)
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