"large gut" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a specific part of the digestive system, specifically the large intestine or colon. Example sentence: The large gut is responsible for absorbing water and essential nutrients from the remaining food particles before they are eliminated from the body.
Bill Arning, the curator of "Achieving Failure: Gym Culture 2000," developed an interest in gyms not to become a Hercules but, more modestly, to rid himself of his "unnecessarily large gut".
Ornithischians, one of the two main groups of dinosaurs, generally ate plants, and "plant eaters require a fairly large gut," said Luis M. Chiappe, director of the museum's Dinosaur Institute and a co-author of a paper describing the finding in The Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciencess.
Bowes has a white beard, a large gut, and hands the size of an NBA player's.
Standing around 6 feet 3 inches tall with a large gut and shaved head, he's a firmly middle class farmland owner from a large city in southwestern Ukraine.
As he pulls up his pants, which fall below his large gut, he takes off his white apron, stained brown with bacon grease and sweat.
It had a small, elongated head with a beak used to bite off plant material that would be digested in a large gut.
However, the relationship between the large gut-capacity and the gigantism of the body size remains to be studied further.
A new analysis of 600 fish populations (including the bluegill, pictured), reported online today in Nature, suggests that large guts help fish deal with feast or famine conditions in the wild.
It's possible that herbivores simply couldn't shrink, since a plant-based diet requires a larger gut for digestion.
Watson seems to have that effect on most of his teammates, who like to make fun of his Long Island accent, his less-than-statuesque physique -- he and reliever Mike Stanton accuse each other of having the larger gut -- and his deliberate manner of speaking, like Sylvester Stallone.
Writing in the project's book, Dr. Clauss said that these giants "might represent a rare example of herbivores that actually benefit from an increase in body size, in terms of a larger gut and a longer retention of food in that gut".
