gizzard
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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
In Googling, I see that’s called the gizzard, and it is acidic.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 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
“That boy got a thumpin’ gizzard for a heart!”
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
Moses also took after his mother and his aunt with his love of cooking, she said; his specialty was fried chicken gizzards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2025
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
The wagyu cuts and bluefin tuna have been big hits, but the Japanese crowd goes for the beef tongue, chicken gizzards and chicken hearts.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2023
There are fried sardines, fried pork cracklings, pickled eggs, gizzards and stews made from cow’s feet and oxtail.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
Matt didn’t know what gizzards were and he didn’t want to find out.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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Animals (Zoology) - Introductory
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