Womb vs Bladder - What's the difference?
womb | bladder |
(anatomy) In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
(obsolete) The abdomen or stomach.
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*:And his hede, hym semed,was enamyled with asure, and his shuldyrs shone as the golde, and his wombe was lyke mayles of a merveylous hew.
(obsolete) The stomach of a person or creature.
*1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Jonah II:
*:And þe Lord made redi a gret fish þat he shulde swolewe Ionas; and Ionas was in wombe of þe fish þre da?es and þre ni?tis.
(figuratively) A place where something is made or formed.
*Dryden
*:The womb of earth the genial seed receives.
Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
*Robert Browning
*:The centre spike of gold / Which burns deep in the bluebell's womb .
(obsolete) To enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.
(zoology) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.
(anatomy) Specifically, the urinary bladder.
(botany) A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant.
The inflatable bag inside various balls used in sports, such as footballs and rugby balls.
A sealed plastic bag that contains wine and is usually packaged in a cask.
(figurative) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
* Rochester
To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
To store or put up in bladders.
As nouns the difference between womb and bladder
is that womb is (anatomy) in female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus while bladder is (zoology) a flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.As verbs the difference between womb and bladder
is that womb is (obsolete) to enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret while bladder is to swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.womb
English
(uterus)Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (organ in mammals) uterus, matrix (poetic or literary''), belly (''poetic or literary )Verb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
bladder
English
Noun
(en noun)- to swim with bladders of philosophy
Synonyms
* vesicaDerived terms
* air bladder * bladdered * bladderpod * bladderwrack * gall bladder * gas bladder * shy bladder * swim bladder * urinary bladderVerb
(en verb)- bladdered lard