womb /ˈwum/
 子宮,發源地


 womb /ˈwum/ 名詞
 子宮


 Womb n.
 1. The belly; the abdomen.  [Obs.]
    And he coveted to fill his woman of the cods that the hogs eat, and no man gave him.   --Wyclif (Luke xv. 16).
    An I had but a belly of any indifferency, I were simply the most active fellow in Europe. My womb, my womb, my womb undoes me.   --Shak.
 2. Anat. The uterus.  See Uterus.
 3. The place where anything is generated or produced.
    The womb of earth the genial seed receives.   --Dryden.
 4. Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
 The center spike of gold
 Which burns deep in the bluebell's womb.   --R. Browning.


 Womb, v. t. To inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.  [Obs.]

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 womb
      n : a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females;
          contains the developing fetus [syn: uterus]