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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. Noun. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gizzard
1. a digestive organ [n -S]
Medical Definition of Gizzard
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gizzard
Literary usage of Gizzard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1897)
"The well-known experiment of John Hunter—so often quoted—on the supposed increase
of thickness in the Gull's gizzard produced by feeding the bird upon corn, ..."
2. The Anatomy of the Domestic Fowl by Benjamin Franklyn Kaupp (1918)
"The gizzard, or muscular stomach, occupies a portion of the central part of the
... The gizzard communicates at its anterior portion with the proventriculus ..."
3. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1899)
"No gizzard. No penial setae. Sperm-ducts join the prostates in the body-wall.
... gizzard rudimentary. Penial setae present. Sperm-ducts open on segment ..."
4. An Elementary System of Physiology. by John Bostock (1826)
"Grew describes ihe gizzard as consisting of six muscles ; four large ones ...
These two latter are, however, only appendages to the gizzard, and serve to ..."
5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"The following is the result of the analysis made by the US Department of Agriculture,
of the contents of the crop and gizzard of an immature specimen of ..."
6. Natural History for the Use of Schools and Families by Worthington Hooker (1864)
"gizzard of the Turkey. masses of muscle, and the lining covering them on the
inside of the ... This grinding operation of the gizzard takes the place of the ..."
7. Western Poultry Book by A. Basley (1912)
"GRIT AND gizzard One of the most important things necessary for the health of
poultry is a supply of grit of the right kind. Nature provides a use for every ..."
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