- the mouth, throat, or gullet of an animal, especially a carnivorous mammal.
- the crop or craw of a fowl.
- the stomach, especially that of an animal.
- a cavernous opening that resembles the open jaws of an animal: the gaping maw of hell.
- the symbolic or theoretical center of a voracious hunger or appetite of any kind: the ravenous maw of Death.
- the mouth, throat, crop, or stomach of an animal, esp of a voracious animal
- the mouth or stomach of a greedy person
