womb

«womb» in Mova's school dictionary: the organ inside a female mammal's body where a baby… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a womb, wombs)

meaning for a pupil

1) The womb is the organ inside a female mammal's body where a baby grows before it is born. tree →

2) (figurative) A womb can be a safe, warm place where something starts and grows. tree →

3) (poetic) A womb can be a dark place that swallows things up, like a grave. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and health lessons about life cycles and human growth: a baby develops in its mother's womb for about nine months. The medical word is «uterus». In stories it can stand for a safe place.

examples

• A baby grows in its mother's womb. tree →
• The kangaroo baby is born early and then grows in a pouch, not in the womb. tree →
• Doctors can see a baby in the womb with a scan. tree →
• Babies can hear sounds while in the womb. tree →
• Mammals grow their young in a womb. tree →
• The cosy cave felt like a womb to the lost hikers. tree →
• There firm and instant closed the greedy Womb, Where wide-born Thousands met a common Tomb. tree →

note

The «b» is silent: said «woom». Plural: wombs. Medical word: uterus. Like «tomb» and «comb», the final «b» is not said.

In the corpora

• When a woman is pregnant, a baby grows inside her womb for about nine months before it is born.
• The ridges form before birth, shaped by how the baby's skin grows and moves in the womb.
• A baby grows inside the mother's body, in the womb, for about nine months before it is born.
• A baby grows inside its mother's womb for about nine months before it is born.
• For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «womb» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.