gizzard

How To Use gizzard In A Sentence

• 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.
• The presence of gastroliths (gizzard stones) in the rib cages of some specimens shows that this view is correct.
• It usually contains pebbles and seems to be used for ‘chewing’ in much the same way as a bird's gizzard.
• However, the ratio of sandeels to gadids found in the Shag gizzards did not change over time, suggesting that diets and rates of otilith loss in gizzards were not noticeably different over the month.
• 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.
• They draw out guts, pull livers, cut wings and gizzards, pop thigh bones.
• Its powerful bill enabled it to break, and its capacious, stone-supplied gizzard to digest, the hardest shells and kernels; and thus a kind of frugivorous vulture, it cleared away the decaying vegetable matter. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852
• Mammals differ because they expect their teeth to do the work of a gizzard or large, muscular gut.
• Two fish in the gizzard shad-access treatment (two different enclosures) died 8 days following the introduction of fish.
• If swallowed, the substance rapidly breaks down in the swan's gizzard, and passes out with no harm done.