gizzard

Jackie also showed signs of chronic disease involving the ventriculus, also known as gizzard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

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

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

“That boy got a thumpin’ gizzard for a heart!”

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper

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

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

Look for sautéed chicken gizzards with pickled beans and Chengdu pig’s feet soup.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2019

Before he tasted the gizzards, he said, “Let me see if this is any good.”

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie