gizzard
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Gizzard \Giz"zard\, n. [F. g['e]sier, L. gigeria, pl., the
cooked entrails of poultry. Cf. {Gigerium}.]
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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 of the
esophagus; the gigerium.
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2. (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.
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{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] --Hudibras.
{To stick in one's gizzard}, to be difficult of digestion; to
be offensive. [Low]
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "gizzard":
abatis, abdomen, abomasum, anus, appendix, bay window, beerbelly,
belly, blind gut, bowels, brain, brains, breadbasket, cecum,
chitterlings, cockscomb, colon, craw, crop, diaphragm, duodenum,
embonpoint, endocardium, entrails, first stomach, foregut, giblets,
gullet, gut, guts, haslet, heart, hindgut, honeycomb stomach,
innards, inner mechanism, insides, internals, intestine, inwards,
jejunum, kidney, kidneys, kishkes, large intestine, liver,
liver and lights, lung, manyplies, marrow, maw, midgut, midriff,
omasum, paunch, perineum, pot, potbelly, potgut, psalterium, pump,
pusgut, pylorus, rectum, rennet bag, reticulum, rumen,
second stomach, small intestine, spare tire, spleen, stomach,
swagbelly, sweetbread, third stomach, ticker, tongue, tripe,
tripes, tum-tum, tummy, underbelly, ventripotence,
vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, works
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