1) Animal anatomy 2) French word used in English 3) Gastric mill 4) Giblets ingredient 5) Java platform 6) Muscular grinder 7) Pocket 8) Pouch 9) Ventriculus
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1) Cdop 2) Craw 3) Ventriculus
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The gizzard, also referred to as the ventriculus, gastric mill, and gigerium, is an organ found in the digestive tract of some animals, including archosaurs (dinosaurs, birds, pterosaurs, crocodiles and alligators), earthworms, some gastropods, some fish and some crustaceans. This specialized stomach constructed of thick, muscular walls is used fo...
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[Scala framework] Gizzard is an open source sharding framework to create custom fault-tolerant, distributed databases. It was initially used by Twitter and emerged from a wide variety of data storage problems. Gizzard operates as a middleware networking service that runs on the Java Virtual Machine. It manages partitioning data across arbit...
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Organ for grinding food; usually found in animals lacking teeth or mandibles
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• (n.) The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium. • (n.) A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks. • (n.) A thick muscular stomach found ...
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An organ that contains grit for grinding up the grain and plant fiber a chicken eats.
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in many birds, the hind part of the stomach, especially modified for grinding food. Located between the saclike crop and the intestine, the gizzard ... [1 related articles]
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The gizzard (also called the gastric mill) is the part of the stomach that grinds up food (usually tough plant material), often aided by gizzard rocks. Many birds have a gizzard, as did some dinosaurs.
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1. <anatomy, ornithology> The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the oesophagus; the gigerium. ... 2. <marine biology> A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate animals. A stomach armed with chitinous or she...
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An enlargement of the alimentary canal in birds that serves to grind the food before it reaches the stomach.
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part of the stomach in many birds that contains small stones or gravel which is used to break down food mechanically. Raptors do not use the gizzard to digest their food. Instead, raptors digest food with powerful stomach acids.
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Giz'zard noun [ French
gésier , Latin gigeria, plural, the cooked entrails of poultry. Confer
Gigerium .]
1. (Anat.) The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part o...
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The gizzard is a strong muscular part of a bird's alimentary canal which enables them to grind their food.
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a large, strong muscular structure in the esophagus used primarily for grinding and digesting tough food. The avian equivalent of molars. Less muscular in birds that eat softer foods like insects or fruit. Also sometimes called the ventriculus, crop or craw, although actually it is found AFTER the crop and proventriculus.
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a special muscle of the stomach that helps the digestive process by grinding and crushing hard-to-digest food; acts like teeth
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a muscular organ of a bird's digestive system where food is ground using rocks or other hard material like grit
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part of a bird's stomach that grinds food
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A digestive pouch in the alimentary canal
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Expansion of the gut commonly filled with gravel for crushing food.
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ventriculus noun thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food
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Muscular grinding organ of the digestive tract, below the crop of birds, earthworms, and some insects, and forming part of the stomach. The gizzard of birds is lined with a hardened horny layer of the protein keratin, preventing damage to the muscle layer during the grinding process. Most birds swallow sharp grit which aids maceration of food in th...
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Muscular hind part of a bird's stomach, used for grinding food.
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a portion of the avian digestive tract with thick muscular walls that crushes and grinds food
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Also calleda thick-walled, muscular pouch in the lower stomach of many birds and reptiles that grinds food, often with the aid of ingested stones or grit. · Also calleda similar structure in the foregut of arthropods and several other invertebrates, often lined with chitin and small teeth. · the innards or viscera collectively, esp. th...
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