1. Partie de l'estomac des ruminants.
2. Partie arrondie.
3. (Familier) Ventre.
ETYM Old Eng. bali, bely, AS. belg, baelg, baelig, bag, bellows, belly; akin to Icel. belgr bag, bellows, Swed. bälg, Dan. baelg, Dutch and German balg, cf. W. bol the paunch or belly, dim. boly, Irish bolg. Related to Bellows, Follicle, Fool, Bilge.
1. A protruding abdomen; SYN. paunch.
2. The underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish.
ETYM Old Eng. gut, got, AS. gut, prob. orig., a channel, and akin to geótan to pour. Related to FOUND to cast.
1. The stomach or belly.
2. (Usually in the plural) An intestine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; bowels; entrails.
3. One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes.
4. The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread.
ETYM Old Fren. panch, pance, French panse, Latin pantex, panticis.
(Irregular plural: paunches).
1. The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants.
2. The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.
ETYM Latin rumen, -inis, the throat.
The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing; SYN. first stomach.
First stomach of ruminant; cud. The large first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant in which cellulose is broken down by the action of symbiotic microorganisms — compare abomasum, omasum, reticulum.
Stomach