gizzard

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

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

But an emerging threat becomes evident in early June as Friesen hauls up minnow traps and gillnets packed with carp, gizzard shad, green sunfish and, ominously, three smallmouth bass.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2022

They were probably the self-sacrificing group, like the women at church socials who said, “No, you take the chicken breast. I’m just fine with the neck and gizzard, really.”

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

Many species of birds purposefully consume small stones and grit, which collect in their gizzards – the second part of their stomachs – and help the birds digest their food by pulverizing it.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 22, 2023

There’s also a separate cooler for skewers — short rib, chicken heart and gizzards.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2022

Growing bolder with experience, you might reach for deep-fried fish paste or smoked gizzards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2021

Choices include wine-soaked blue crab, stir-fried chicken gizzards, crispy eel in sweet-and-sour sauce, spicy frog’s legs with hot sweet-and-sour sauce, steamed yellow croaker with pork meat pie, and sea urchin egg tofu stew.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2020

Aunty Uju cooked peppered gizzards, powdered her face, and stood by the living room window, waiting to see his car pull in.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie