<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>The mouth, throat, or gullet of an animal, especially a carnivorous mammal.</li><li>The crop or craw of a fowl.</li><li>The stomach, especially that of an animal.</li><li>A cavernous opening that resembles the open jaws of an animal: the gaping maw of hell.</li><li>The symbolic or theoretical center of a voracious hunger or appetite of any kind: the ravenous maw of Death.</li></ul>