gizzard
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Like its fellow enantiornithines, and unlike modern birds, it does not appear to have a digestive organ called a gizzard, or gastric mill, that helped it crush up its food.
From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2024
Before anything enters a bird's gizzard, an organ for grinding up food, the proventriculus secretes digestive enzymes and hydrochloric acid to break down meals.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2023
In Googling, I see that’s called the gizzard, and it is acidic.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2023
She had used blood, liver, bones and gizzard because they were affordable, then giblets got too expensive, and she replaced them with fried eggs.
From BBC • Aug. 16, 2022
All the rough-fish population of these waters was destroyed also — the carp, buffalo, drum, gizzard shad, and catfish.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing gizzard
Animals (Zoology) - Introductory
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