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
The birds swallowed the franks whole, straight down the gullet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 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
When he felt it was safe, the dragon tore at the sheep’s flesh with his teeth, leaning his head back and coaxing the meat down his gullet.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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