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# gizzard

«gizzard» in Mova's school dictionary: **a strong muscular part of a bird's stomach that grinds up…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a gizzard, gizzards)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A gizzard is a strong muscular part of a bird's stomach that grinds up food, often with small stones the bird has swallowed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gizzard/#m1)

2) (informal, humorous) Gizzard can mean a person's stomach or throat: «It sticks in my gizzard» means it annoys me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gizzard/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons birds have gizzards instead of teeth to grind food. In cooking, chicken gizzards are eaten in some places. Phrases: «stick in your gizzard».

### examples

- Birds have no teeth, so the gizzard grinds their food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gizzard/#x1)
- Chickens swallow small stones to help their gizzard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gizzard/#x2)
- Some people fry chicken gizzards. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gizzard/#x3)
- The worm ended up in the robin's gizzard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gizzard/#x4)
- That unfair rule really sticks in my gizzard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gizzard/#x5)
- Earthworms have a gizzard too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gizzard/#x6)
- Make yourself quite small, get into my throat—go into my gizzard and I will carry you.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gizzard/#x7)

### note

Countable. Not a lizard! Birds and some other animals (earthworms, crocodiles) have gizzards.

### In the corpora

- [Ostriches swallow pebbles, which collect in the gizzard and grind tough food, because birds have no teeth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand/12/)
- [Birds have no teeth; a muscly part of the stomach called the gizzard grinds their food, often with swallowed grit.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/73-birds-feathers-nests-flight/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gizzard» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gizzard/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.