'Gizzard' definitions:
Definition of 'gizzard'
From: WordNet
noun
Thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food [syn: gizzard, ventriculus, gastric mill]
Definition of 'Gizzard'
From: GCIDE
- Gizzard \Giz"zard\, n. [F. g['e]sier, L. gigeria, pl., the cooked entrails of poultry. Cf. Gigerium.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'gizzard'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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