gullets

plural of gullet
as in mouths
the tube that leads from the mouth through the throat to the stomach food traveling down the gullet

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Noun
  • The two colubrid snakes in the study had fangs further back in their mouths.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The kids of Balsam are not rolling the candy of language in their mouths.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Through much trial and error, Flores was able to teach himself how to program the skeletons to move their jaws and heads in time with prerecorded dialogue or songs of his choosing.
    Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The vipers closed their jaws to inject the venom only when their fangs were comfortably in place.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
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“Gullets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gullets. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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