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单词 gizzard
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Definition of gizzard in English:

gizzard

noun ˈɡɪzədˈɡɪzərd
  • 1A muscular, thick-walled part of a bird's stomach for grinding food, typically with grit.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Grain is stored in their crops and ground by the grit in their gizzard.
    • They draw out guts, pull livers, cut wings and gizzards, pop thigh bones.
    • Grit is used by many birds to help them grind their food in their gizzards.
    • Unfortunately, the time that a hard piece of gravel or grit spends in the gizzard can be quite variable: sometimes a few days, sometimes a few months.
    • Small crustaceans and young molluscs make up the bulk of their diet, along with algal cells, which are ground up in the muscular gizzard at the beginning of the gut.
    • Due to their soft food diet, lorikeets have a weak ventricular muscle or gizzard, which is usually used for grinding seeds by other birds.
    • Their digestion is also aided by a muscular gizzard containing stones to help break down food
    • Chickens need grit in their gizzards to grind up the food they eat so they can get the most nutrition out of it.
    • As there were no crushing teeth in the mouth, vegetation must have been swallowed and then crushed in a gizzard similar to that found in many birds.
    • Place the pigeon breasts, heart, gizzards, and legs in the yogurt and refrigerate overnight.
    • They have been known, like other members of this group, to swallow grit to help grind coarse food in their gizzards.
    • Historical reports were anecdotal, based on collection of a limited number of individual birds and generating a simple list of food items found in gizzards.
    • Herbivorous, granivorous and insectivorous birds have a highly specialized, muscular gizzard with an inner lining of hard cuticle.
    • It usually contains pebbles and seems to be used for ‘chewing’ in much the same way as a bird's gizzard.
    • Mammals differ because they expect their teeth to do the work of a gizzard or large, muscular gut.
    1. 1.1 A muscular stomach of some fish, insects, molluscs, and other invertebrates.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Two fish in the gizzard shad-access treatment (two different enclosures) died 8 days following the introduction of fish.
      • Significant effects of gizzard shad access likely occurred due to the additional surface area provided for periphyton by the mesh netting.
      • Herbivorous fishes posses specialized organs, such as extended guts, pharyngeal mills and gizzards, that allow them to exploit various reef plants and algae.
      • In Florida, the diet was comprised mainly of fishes, with gizzard shad, bullhead catfish, and small bluegill particularly common.
      • We manipulated sediment access and fish size during two mesocosm experiments to determine how these factors could alter the effects of gizzard shad on phytoplankton.
      • We conducted two mesocosm experiments to determine the effects of sediment feeding by gizzard shad and fish size on nutrient and phytoplankton dynamics.
    2. 1.2informal A person's stomach or throat.
      the fans wanted to see him rip the gizzards out of bad guys
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Master Splinter says it needs another coat, or he'll tear my gizzards out.
      • What is gnawing at my gizzard?
      • I'm going to tear out his gizzard and feed it to my cat.
      • I washed it down with his Dad's home made wine - it may wipe out my gizzard in the process, but I felt sure it would kill my tastebuds too, and as far as I was concerned, that's all that mattered.

Origin

Late Middle English giser: from Old French, based on Latin gigeria 'cooked entrails of fowl'. The final -d was added in the 16th century.

  • The early spelling was giser which is from Old French, based on Latin gigeria ‘cooked entrails of fowl’. The final -d was added in the 16th century.

Rhymes

blizzard, izard, lizard, vizard, wizard
 
 

Definition of gizzard in US English:

gizzard

nounˈɡɪzərdˈɡizərd
  • 1A muscular, thick-walled part of a bird's stomach for grinding food, typically with grit.

    Also called ventriculus
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Small crustaceans and young molluscs make up the bulk of their diet, along with algal cells, which are ground up in the muscular gizzard at the beginning of the gut.
    • Historical reports were anecdotal, based on collection of a limited number of individual birds and generating a simple list of food items found in gizzards.
    • Due to their soft food diet, lorikeets have a weak ventricular muscle or gizzard, which is usually used for grinding seeds by other birds.
    • Unfortunately, the time that a hard piece of gravel or grit spends in the gizzard can be quite variable: sometimes a few days, sometimes a few months.
    • Mammals differ because they expect their teeth to do the work of a gizzard or large, muscular gut.
    • Grit is used by many birds to help them grind their food in their gizzards.
    • As there were no crushing teeth in the mouth, vegetation must have been swallowed and then crushed in a gizzard similar to that found in many birds.
    • It usually contains pebbles and seems to be used for ‘chewing’ in much the same way as a bird's gizzard.
    • They have been known, like other members of this group, to swallow grit to help grind coarse food in their gizzards.
    • Their digestion is also aided by a muscular gizzard containing stones to help break down food
    • Herbivorous, granivorous and insectivorous birds have a highly specialized, muscular gizzard with an inner lining of hard cuticle.
    • Place the pigeon breasts, heart, gizzards, and legs in the yogurt and refrigerate overnight.
    • Grain is stored in their crops and ground by the grit in their gizzard.
    • Chickens need grit in their gizzards to grind up the food they eat so they can get the most nutrition out of it.
    • They draw out guts, pull livers, cut wings and gizzards, pop thigh bones.
    1. 1.1 A muscular stomach of some fish, insects, mollusks, and other invertebrates.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In Florida, the diet was comprised mainly of fishes, with gizzard shad, bullhead catfish, and small bluegill particularly common.
      • Significant effects of gizzard shad access likely occurred due to the additional surface area provided for periphyton by the mesh netting.
      • Two fish in the gizzard shad-access treatment (two different enclosures) died 8 days following the introduction of fish.
      • We conducted two mesocosm experiments to determine the effects of sediment feeding by gizzard shad and fish size on nutrient and phytoplankton dynamics.
      • We manipulated sediment access and fish size during two mesocosm experiments to determine how these factors could alter the effects of gizzard shad on phytoplankton.
      • Herbivorous fishes posses specialized organs, such as extended guts, pharyngeal mills and gizzards, that allow them to exploit various reef plants and algae.
    2. 1.2informal A person's stomach or throat.
      the fans wanted to see him rip the gizzards out of bad guys
      Example sentencesExamples
      • What is gnawing at my gizzard?
      • I washed it down with his Dad's home made wine - it may wipe out my gizzard in the process, but I felt sure it would kill my tastebuds too, and as far as I was concerned, that's all that mattered.
      • I'm going to tear out his gizzard and feed it to my cat.
      • Master Splinter says it needs another coat, or he'll tear my gizzards out.

Origin

Late Middle English giser: from Old French, based on Latin gigeria ‘cooked entrails of fowl’. The final -d was added in the 16th century.

 
 
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