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VENTRICULUS (ventriculi)
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Irregular inflected form: ventriculi
Dictionary entry overview: What does ventriculus mean?
• VENTRICULUS (noun)
The noun VENTRICULUS has 1 sense:
1. thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food
Familiarity information: VENTRICULUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
gastric mill; gizzard; ventriculus
Hypernyms ("ventriculus" is a kind of...):
pocket; pouch ((anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican))
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