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womb

noun
🔊/wuːm/
🔊/wuːm/
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  1. the organ in women and female animals in which babies or young animals develop before they are born子宫
    • A scan determines the position of the baby in the womb.扫描检查可以确定胎儿在子宫中的位置。
    • The baby's head was starting to emerge from the womb.婴儿的头开始从母亲的子宫中露出来。
    synonym uterus
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    • the baby growing in her womb在她子宫中生长的胎儿
    • the nine months for which we are carried in our mothers' wombs我们在母亲子宫内待的那 9 个月
    Topics Bodyc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • barren
    • artificial
    verb + womb
    • come out of
    • emerge from
    preposition
    • in the/​your womb
    • within the/​your womb
    • out of the/​your womb
    • …
    phrases
    • the lining of the womb
    • the neck of the womb
    • the wall of the womb
    • …
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    Word OriginOld English wamb, womb, of Germanic origin.