gastric mill

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   thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food

   Synonymsgizzardventriculus

   Broaderpouch

Questions about gastric mill

What does gastric mill mean?

gastric mill means "thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food".

What is another word for gastric mill?

Close synonyms include gizzard, ventriculus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gastric mill a common word?

gastric mill is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.