| 1. | the mouth, throat, or gullet of an animal, esp. a carnivorous mammal. |
| 2. | the crop or craw of a fowl. |
| 3. | the stomach, esp. that of an animal. |
| 4. | a cavernous opening that resembles the open jaws of an animal: the gaping maw of hell. |
| 5. | the symbolic or theoretical center of a voracious hunger or appetite of any kind: the ravenous maw of Death. |

maw
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