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omasus

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The omasum.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: no-plural

Examples

  • 1658: after a fuller mastication, and salivous mixture, what part thereof descendeth again, in a moist and succulent body, it slides down the softer and more permeable Orifice, into the Omasus or third stomack — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 192)

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History

Etymology

Misinterpretation of Latin omasum.