BOWEL


Meaning of BOWEL in English

(~s)

1.

Your ~s are the tubes in your body through which digested food passes from your stomach to your anus.

N-COUNT

2.

You can refer in a polite way to someone getting rid of the waste from their body by saying that they move, open, or empty their ~s.

N-PLURAL

3.

You can refer to the parts deep inside something such as the earth, a building, or a machine as the ~s of that thing. (HUMOROUS or LITERARY)

...deep in the ~s of the earth...

Lyn went off into the dark ~s of the building.

= recesses

N-PLURAL: the N of n

Collins COBUILD.      Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) .