Womb vs Bowels - What's the difference?
womb | bowels |
(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.
(plural only) The deepest or innermost part.
(plural only) The concept or quality that defines something at its very core.
(plural only) The intestines.
As nouns the difference between womb and bowels
is that womb is in female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus while bowels is plural of lang=en.As a verb womb
is to enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.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)
bowels
English
Noun
(head)- down in the bowels of the Earth
- the project's bowels