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

There were eels, gar, carp, river carpsuckers, gizzard shad, and buffalo.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2021

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