proventriculus
nounEtymology From New Latin proventriculus (19th century), from pro- + ventriculus.
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Biology, Natural sciences, Zoology The part of the avian stomach, between the crop and the gizzard, that secretes digestive enzymes.
- 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.2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 201:
- Related terms
- proventriculitis