gullet
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Mobula rays feed by swimming open-mouthed through plankton-rich regions of the ocean and filtering plankton particles into their gullet as water streams into their mouths and out through their gills.
From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024
Oesophageal cancer is a cancer that's found anywhere in the oesophagus, sometimes called the gullet or food pipe, which connects your mouth to your stomach.
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2023
Moshfegh, in her fourth novel, thrives in the mire, a happy little worm sliding dirt down her gullet.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2022
There’s even an Easter egg homage to a scene in the 1962 original, in which Kong jams a tree trunk down Godzilla’s gullet.
From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2021
To distract the beast in my gullet, I tried to read the names of the books on the shelves without turning my head.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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