VENTRICULI

VENTRICULUS

gizzard, ventriculus, gastric mill

(noun) thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

ventriculi

plural of ventriculus

Source: Wiktionary


VENTRICULUS

Ven*tric"u*lus, n.; pl. Ventriculi. Etym: [L., belly, dim. fr. venter belly.] (Zoöl.) (a) One of the stomachs of certain insects. (b) The body cavity of a sponge.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

10 January 2025

INTERSPERSION

(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”


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According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.

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