Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology, a crop, craw, or some other dilatation of the digestive tube situated in advance of the true stomach or digestive cavity proper.
- noun In mammalogy, the paunch or rumen of a ruminant.
- noun In entomology, an expansion of the esophagus forming a kind of preliminary stomach or crop, before the proventriculus. In many haustellate insects it is transformed into an expansible sucking-stomach, and in some groups it is wanting. The ingluvies lies in the posterior part of the thorax or partly in the abdomen. See cut under
Blattidæ .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The crop, or craw, of birds.
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- noun anatomy The
crop , orcraw , ofbirds .
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Many species of birds - such as parrots have an enlarged area of the esophagus known as a crop or ingluvies.
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Many species of birds - such as parrots have an enlarged area of the esophagus known as a crop or ingluvies.
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