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. + prikaži više