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

Moshfegh, in her fourth novel, thrives in the mire, a happy little worm sliding dirt down her gullet.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2022

Unlike other birds, the male bittern does not use its voice box but muscles around his windpipe to expand his entire gullet into an echo chamber.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2022

As in every country where McDonald’s opens restaurants, the chain didn’t just shove its Western offerings down Russia’s gullet.

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2022

Her felt her crop, the upper portion of the gullet where the food first lodges after swallowing.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George