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

There were eels, gar, carp, river carpsuckers, gizzard shad, and buffalo.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

The wagyu cuts and bluefin tuna have been big hits, but the Japanese crowd goes for the beef tongue, chicken gizzards and chicken hearts.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2023

Growing bolder with experience, you might reach for deep-fried fish paste or smoked gizzards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2021

Choices include wine-soaked blue crab, stir-fried chicken gizzards, crispy eel in sweet-and-sour sauce, spicy frog’s legs with hot sweet-and-sour sauce, steamed yellow croaker with pork meat pie, and sea urchin egg tofu stew.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2020

Matt didn’t know what gizzards were and he didn’t want to find out.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer