Gizzard synonyms

gĭz'ərd

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gastric mill
thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food
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radula (related)
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droppings (related)
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caecal (related)
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ventriculus
(Entomology) That part of the alimentary tract of an insect, analogous to the stomach, where digestion takes place
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  • The gizzard of various birds which are addicted to eating hairy caterpillars, e.g.

  • The crop is modified into a large and very rugose triturating apparatus, while the gizzard, thereby relieved of its function, is reduced to the utmost.

  • A gizzard is present in a few forms. The buccal cavity is sometimes armed with jaws.

  • Most birds have a gizzard which helps to grind up seeds for example.

  • Cuculus canorus and trogons, is often lined with the broken-off hairs of these caterpillars, which, penetrating the cuticle, assume a regular spiral arrangement, due to the rotatory motion of the muscles of the gizzard.

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