OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 2537

womb

/wuːm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
vientre
In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
I danced myself right out the womb / Is it strange to dance so soon?
cuna
A place where something is made or formed.
The shadows of the future hours rose dark and menacing from the womb of time [...]
The womb of earth the genial seed receives.
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