giz|zard

giz|zard
giz|zard «GIHZ uhrd», noun.
1. a bird's second stomach where the food from the first stomach is ground up fine; ventriculus. The gizzard has thick, rough walls and usually contains bits of sand or gravel.
2. a muscular organ posterior to the crop in insects, earthworms, and some other animals, that serves to grind up the food.
3. Informal. a person's stomach or viscera.
╂[Middle English gyser < Old French guiser < Latin gigeria or gizeria (cooked) entrails of a fowl]

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