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单词 womb
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
womb /wum/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. Anatomy uterus.
  2. the place in which something is formed or produced:The laboratory was the womb of new discoveries.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
womb  (wo̅o̅m),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Anatomythe uterus of the human female and certain higher mammals.
  2. the place in which anything is formed or produced:the womb of time.
  3. the interior of anything.
  4. [Obs.]the belly.
  • bef. 900; Middle English, Old English: belly, womb; cognate with Dutch wam, German Wamme, Gothic wamba belly; compare wamus
wombed, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
womb /wuːm/ n
  1. the nontechnical name for uterus
  2. a hollow space enclosing something, esp when dark, warm, or sheltering
  3. a place where something is conceived: the Near East is the womb of western civilization
  4. obsolete the belly
Etymology: Old English wamb; related to Old Norse vomb, Gothic wamba, Middle Low German wamme, Swedish våmm

wombed adj ˈwomblike adj
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