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GASTRIC MILL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gastric mill mean?
• GASTRIC MILL (noun)
The noun GASTRIC MILL has 1 sense:
1. thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food
Familiarity information: GASTRIC MILL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
gastric mill; gizzard; ventriculus
Hypernyms ("gastric mill" is a kind of...):
pocket; pouch ((anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican))
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