Craw vs Oesophagus - What's the difference?
craw | oesophagus | Related terms |
(archaic) to caw, crow, for certain birds to make their cry
*{{quote-book, year=1828, author=David Macbeth Moir, title=The Life of Mansie Wauch, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The night was now pitmirk; the wind soughed amid the head-stones and railings of the gentry, (for we must all die,) and the black corbies in the steeple-holes cackled and crawed in a fearsome manner. }}
(anatomy) The tube that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach.
Craw is a related term of oesophagus.
As nouns the difference between craw and oesophagus
is that craw is (archaic) the stomach of an animal while oesophagus is (anatomy) the tube that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach.As a verb craw
is (archaic) to caw, crow, for certain birds to make their cry.craw
English
Synonyms
* crop * gulletDerived terms
* stick in one’s crawVerb
(en verb)citation