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proventriculus

proventriculus noun: the part of the avian stomach, between the crop and the gizzard, that secretes digestive enzymes.

Noun

proventriculus (plural proventriculi)

  1. 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
  2. A similar part of the digestive system in insects and myriapods.

proventriculus meaning in Tamil and Bengali

proventriculus in Tamil

கோழியில் செரிமான வயிறு, முன் இரைப்பை, புரோதரம், முன்சிறு இரைப்பை

proventriculus in Bengali

পাখির পাকস্থলীর অংশ, শস্যভাণ্ডার এবং গিজার্ডের মাঝখানে

Forms of proventriculus

pluralproventriculi

Origin of proventriculus

From New Latin proventriculus (19th century), from pro- + ventriculus.

Words that rhyme with proventriculus

Questions about proventriculus

What does proventriculus mean?
Proventriculus means the part of the avian stomach, between the crop and the gizzard, that secretes digestive enzymes.
What is proventriculus in Tamil?
Proventriculus in Tamil is கோழியில் செரிமான வயிறு, முன் இரைப்பை, புரோதரம். See Proventriculus meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is proventriculus?
Proventriculus is a noun.
What is the plural of proventriculus?
The plural of proventriculus is proventriculi.

Words near proventriculus in the dictionary

  1. proventricles
  2. proventricular
  3. proventriculi
  4. proventriculitis
  5. proventriculous
  6. proventriculus
  7. provenzalia
  8. Provenzano
  9. Provenzanos
  10. Provençal
  11. Provençals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: proventriculus (page history and authors); proventriculus (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); proventriculus (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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