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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 giz·zard /ˈgɪzɚ/
 砂囊,胃

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 giz·zard /ˈgɪzɝd/ 名詞
 砂囊,胗,胃,內臟,難消化,難接受

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Giz·zard n.
 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.
 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.
 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]
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 gizzard
      n : thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and
          reptiles for grinding food [syn: ventriculus, gastric
          mill]