Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The intestines.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: specifically
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a main organ that is situated inside the body
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: internal organ
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: organ
Narrower terms: viscera, entrails, innards, excretory organ, urinary organ, liver, heart, pump, ticker, stomach, tummy, tum, breadbasket, respiratory organ, intestine, bowel, gut, hindgut
History
From Latin vīscus (“any internal organ of the body”).
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
