n.
Pronunciation: ' ven-t ə r
Function: noun
Etymology: Anglo-French ventre belly, womb, mother, from Latin, belly, womb; perhaps akin to Old High German wanast paunch, Latin vesica bladder, Sanskrit vasti
Date: 1544
1 : a wife or mother that is a source of offspring
2 [ New Latin, from L] : a protuberant and often hollow anatomical structure: as a : the undersurface of the abdomen of an arthropod b : the swollen basal portion of an archegonium in which an egg develops