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

Near as I could tell, it was just a wing, a back, and a gizzard, laying lonely on the platter.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns