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

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

There’s even an Easter egg homage to a scene in the 1962 original, in which Kong jams a tree trunk down Godzilla’s gullet.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2021

“Then pour some water down your gullet and let’s get hopping.”

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner