womb
n. countablen. the organ inside a woman's body where a baby grows before it is born. It is also called the uterus.
n. the hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of female mammals in which the embryo or fetus develops. Often used in literary or medical contexts; the term 'uterus' is more common in strictly clinical settings.
The baby is growing safely in the womb.
Expectant parents often play music near the mother's stomach, hoping the baby can hear it from inside the womb.
The study explores how the environment of the womb can influence a child's health and development long after they are born, highlighting the importance of prenatal care.
From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic wambu, from Proto-Germanic wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”). Cognate with Scots wam, wame (“womb”), Dutch wam (“dewlap of beef; belly of a fish”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vom (“rumen”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”), Old Welsh gumbelauc (“womb”), Breton gwamm (“woman, wife”), Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “the skin or membrane lining the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum”). Superseded non-native Middle English mater, matere (“womb”) and matris, matrice (“womb”) borrowed from Latin māter (“womb”) and Old French matrice (“womb”), respectively.
Often used with the definite article 'the' when referring to the organ in a general biological sense.