gastric mill
nounZoology.
a gizzard in decapod crustaceans, as lobsters, crabs, and shrimps, having an arrangement of teeth and small bones for grinding food and bristles for filtering small particles.
Origin of gastric mill
1First recorded in 1895–1900
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How to use gastric mill in a sentence
The front one contains three long teeth which meet laterally and grind the food; this is known as the gastric mill.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote Arnoldgastric mill: The first half of the stomach, where food is ground.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote ArnoldThe whole apparatus, in fact, serves as a kind of gizzard, and is known as the gastric mill.
The Life of Crustacea | William Thomas CalmanIt is among the Malacostraca, however, and especially in the Decapoda, that the “gastric mill” reaches its greatest perfection.
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