单词 | gizzard |
释义 | gizzard/ˈɡɪzəd /noun 1A muscular, thick-walled part of a bird’s stomach for grinding food, typically with grit.They have been known, like other members of this group, to swallow grit to help grind coarse food in their gizzards....
1.1A muscular stomach of some fish, insects, molluscs, and other invertebrates.Two fish in the gizzard shad-access treatment (two different enclosures) died 8 days following the introduction of fish....
OriginLate 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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