gastric mill

noun Zoology.
1.
a gizzard in decapod crustaceans, as lobsters, crabs, and shrimps, having an arrangement of teeth and small bones for grinding food and bristles for filtering small particles.
2.
gizzard ( def 2 ).

Origin:
1895–1900

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gastric mill

noun
thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food [syn: gizzard
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Gastric mill is always a great word to know.
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the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
In the mid-chamber, the gastric mill, a set of chitinous teeth grinds the food.
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