ingluviesn.
/ɪnˈɡluːvɪiːz/ Anatomy.
A dilatation of the œsophagus before it reaches the true stomach; the crop of a bird, the first stomach of a ruminating animal, an insect, etc.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Ingluvies, or Crop, a part which in granivorous Fowls serves for the immediate Reception of the Food.
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vii. 411 The chitinous lining which is continued into it from the ingluvies is greatly thickened.
1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 212 The œsophagus of many birds becomes modified into a special pouch,—the crop or craw, ingluvies, where the food is detained to be macerated in a special secretion, before passing on to the true stomach.
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