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Pronunciation: [ɡˈɪzəd] (IPA)

Gizzard is a term that is commonly used to describe the muscular digestive organ present in birds, reptiles, and some fishes. However, there are several synonyms for this term that can be used in place of gizzard. These synonyms include "crop," which is a part of a bird's digestive system where food is stored, "craw," which is the same as crop but is used mainly in some parts of the United States and Scotland, and "proventriculus," which is the first part of a bird's stomach that secretes digestive enzymes. Other synonyms include "digestive tract," "gut," and "intestines," which are used in a broader context to refer to the entire digestive system.
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Usage examples for Gizzard

Another split second and his knife would have been in your gizzard.
"Border, Breed Nor Birth"
Dallas McCord Reynolds
If you haven't, sell all you have and buy the book, for I know it will speak to your very gizzard.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
None of my kin ever died that way: I've got too much sand in my gizzard to be took that way.
"Not Pretty, But Precious"
John Hay, et al.

Famous quotes with Gizzard

  • I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.
    Samuel Pepys
  • "I don't really know what happened. I just fell out of the nest." But the second Soren said those words he felt a weird queasiness. He almost knew. He just couldn't quite remember, but he almost knew how it had happened, and he felt a mixture of dread and shame creep through him. He felt something terrible deep in his gizzard.
    Kathryn Lasky
  • You can do it! You believe! Feel it in your gizzard. You are a creature of flight. Fly, my children. Fly!
    Kathryn Lasky

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