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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gizzard /ˈgɪzəd/

▶noun a muscular, thick-walled part of a bird's stomach for grinding food, typically with grit.

■ a muscular stomach of some fish, insects, molluscs, and other invertebrates.

– origin ME giser: from OFr., based on L. gigeria ‘cooked entrails of fowl’.

'gizzard' also found in these Oxford entries:

gastrolith - giblets

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