The crop (also the croup , the craw , the ingluvies , and the sublingual pouch ) is a thin-walled, expanded portion of the alimentary tract , which is used for the storage of food before digestion . The crop is an anatomical structure in vertebrate animals, such as birds , and invertebrate animals, such as gastropods (snails and slugs), earthworms , leeches , and insects .
12-475: [REDACTED] Look up maw in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Maw may refer to: Biology [ edit ] A human's or animal's stomach or gullet , a bird's crop A fish's gas bladder (swim bladder) Abomasum , the fourth stomach of a ruminant Games [ edit ] Maw (game) , a card game The Maw , a 2009 video game The Maw,
24-460: A bird 's digestive system, the crop is an expanded, muscular pouch near the gullet or throat. It is a part of the digestive tract, essentially an enlarged part of the esophagus . As with most other organisms that have a crop, it is used to temporarily store food. Not all bird species have one. In adult doves and pigeons, it can produce crop milk to feed newly hatched birds. Scavenging birds, such as vultures , will gorge themselves when prey
36-462: Is abundant, causing their crop to bulge. They subsequently sit, sleepy or half torpid, to digest their food. Most raptors , including hawks , eagles and vultures (as stated above), have a crop; however, owls do not. Similarly, all true quail ( Old World quail and New World quail ) have a crop, but buttonquail do not. Chickens , turkeys , ducks and geese possess a crop, as do parrots . Pigeons also have crops; one domestic breed type
48-581: Is even bred to exaggerate the typical crop-inflating behavior so that the crop is inflated like a balloon . Some extinct birds like Enantiornithes did not have crops. In the Sherlock Holmes story " The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle " (1892), a valuable gem is hidden inside a bird's crop. "Craw" is an obsolete term for "crop", and this is still seen in the saying "it sticks in my craw" meaning "I can't [metaphorically] swallow it", that is, that
60-413: Is used by bees to temporarily store nectar of flowers. When bees "suck" nectar, it is stored in their crops. Other Hymenoptera also use crops to store liquid food. The crop in eusocial insects, such as ants , has specialized to be distensible, and this specialization enables important communication between colonial insects through trophallaxis . The crop can be found in the foregut of insects. In
72-483: The Shan states of Southeast Asia Maw language (disambiguation) Mace (bludgeon) , a weapon Maw & Co , British manufacturer of ceramic tiles See also [ edit ] MAW (disambiguation) Mawe (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Maw . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
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96-406: The 💕 [REDACTED] Look up maw in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Maw may refer to: Biology [ edit ] A human's or animal's stomach or gullet , a bird's crop A fish's gas bladder (swim bladder) Abomasum , the fourth stomach of a ruminant Games [ edit ] Maw (game) , a card game The Maw , a 2009 video game The Maw,
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132-491: The main setting of the video game Little Nightmares Maw, a character in the video game My Singing Monsters People with the surname [ edit ] Carlyle E. Maw (1903–1987), American lawyer and politician Herbert B. Maw (1893–1990), American politician Nicholas Maw (1935–2009), British composer William Maw (1838–1924), British civil engineer Other [ edit ] Scottish and North American slang for " mother " Maw (state) , one of
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