transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈven-tər ]
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 Latin]
: 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