GIZZARD • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Gizzard

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

noun

Gizzard n.

(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 of the esophagus; the gigerium.

(Zool.)

(a)

A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate animals.

(b)

A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks.

Gizzard shad (Zool.), an American herring (Dorosoma cepedianum) resembling the shad, but of little value.

To fret the gizzard, to harass; to vex one's self; to worry. (Low)

To stick in one's gizzard, to be difficult of digestion; to be offensive. (Low)

See images of 'Gizzard'

Etymology of 'Gizzard'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Gizzard" Quotes from Famous Books

... thousand to one that none of them will ever pass the cloaca of the bird eating them, in any condition to germinate. All seed-eating birds are also gravel-eaters; and the pebbles and gravel they eat are mostly silex, or the material from which our best buhrstones are made. These pass into the gizzard, or pyloric division of the bird's stomach, where they are utilized, the same as we utilize our buhrstones. The gizzard has sharply corrugated interior walls, extremely thick and muscular, which involuntarily contract and expand, giving the bird a tremendous grinding power over his ...

— Life: Its True Genesis • R. W. Wright

... find it a pretty tough and matter-of-fact idea, if you had it stuck through your gizzard, old boy!" ...

— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne

Words linked to "Gizzard" : pouch, ventriculus, pocket, gastric mill