gullet

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Mobula rays feed by swimming open-mouthed through plankton-rich regions of the ocean and filtering plankton particles into their gullet as water streams into their mouths and out through their gills.

From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024

That would be the mass equivalent of 370 suns a year disappearing down a cosmic gullet 11 billion years ago at the dawn of time.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2024

Oesophageal cancer is a cancer that's found anywhere in the oesophagus, sometimes called the gullet or food pipe, which connects your mouth to your stomach.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2023

The birds swallowed the franks whole, straight down the gullet.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2022

My mom tossed her a ten-pound family-size tube of ground beef, which disappeared down her gullet.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan