Womb vs Wombless - What's the difference?
womb | wombless |
(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.
As a noun womb
is (anatomy) in female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.As a verb womb
is (obsolete) to enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.As an adjective wombless is
without a womb.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)
