gizzard

Like its fellow enantiornithines, and unlike modern birds, it does not appear to have a digestive organ called a gizzard, or gastric mill, that helped it crush up its food.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2024

Before anything enters a bird's gizzard, an organ for grinding up food, the proventriculus secretes digestive enzymes and hydrochloric acid to break down meals.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2023

In Googling, I see that’s called the gizzard, and it is acidic.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2023

She had used blood, liver, bones and gizzard because they were affordable, then giblets got too expensive, and she replaced them with fried eggs.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2022

“That boy got a thumpin’ gizzard for a heart!”

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper

Moses also took after his mother and his aunt with his love of cooking, she said; his specialty was fried chicken gizzards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2025

Many species of birds purposefully consume small stones and grit, which collect in their gizzards – the second part of their stomachs – and help the birds digest their food by pulverizing it.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 22, 2023

Call A chicken also sells gizzards, fried whole chicken and New Orleans-style wings.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 23, 2022

There are fried sardines, fried pork cracklings, pickled eggs, gizzards and stews made from cow’s feet and oxtail.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

Aunty Uju cooked peppered gizzards, powdered her face, and stood by the living room window, waiting to see his car pull in.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie