Meaning of proventriculus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The part of the avian stomach, between the crop and the gizzard, that secretes digestive enzymes.
2. A similar part of the digestive system in insects and myriapods.

Examples

“In fulmars, the proventriculus is very baggy, and has thick wrinkled walls lined with glands that excrete the waxy oil which courting birds pass⟳ to one another in small amounts, perhaps as a way of scent-marking their mate.”

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