dorosoma cepedianum

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dorosoma cepedianum - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Gizzard \Giz"zard\, n. [F. g['e]sier, L. gigeria, pl., the
     cooked entrails of poultry. Cf. Gigerium.]
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     1. (Anat.) The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in
        which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened
        in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the
        esophagus; the gigerium.
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     2. (Zool.)
        (a) A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate
            animals.
        (b) A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or
            teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks.
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     Gizzard shad (Zool.), an American herring (Dorosoma  cepedianum
        ) resembling the shad, but of little value.
  
     To fret the gizzard, to harass; to vex one's self; to
        worry. [Low] --Hudibras.
  
     To stick in one's gizzard, to be difficult of digestion; to
        be offensive. [Low]
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