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# womb

«womb» in Mova's school dictionary: **the organ inside a female mammal's body where a baby…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a womb, wombs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The womb is the organ inside a female mammal's body where a baby grows before it is born. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/womb/#m1)

2) (figurative) A womb can be a safe, warm place where something starts and grows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/womb/#m2)

3) (poetic) A womb can be a dark place that swallows things up, like a grave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/womb/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and health lessons about life cycles and human growth: a baby develops in its mother's womb for about nine months. The medical word is «uterus». In stories it can stand for a safe place.

### examples

- A baby grows in its mother's womb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/womb/#x1)
- The kangaroo baby is born early and then grows in a pouch, not in the womb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/womb/#x2)
- Doctors can see a baby in the womb with a scan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/womb/#x3)
- Babies can hear sounds while in the womb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/womb/#x4)
- Mammals grow their young in a womb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/womb/#x5)
- The cosy cave felt like a womb to the lost hikers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/womb/#x6)
- There firm and instant closed the greedy Womb, Where wide-born Thousands met a common Tomb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/womb/#x7)

### note

The «b» is silent: said «woom». Plural: wombs. Medical word: uterus. Like «tomb» and «comb», the final «b» is not said.

### In the corpora

- [When a woman is pregnant, a baby grows inside her womb for about nine months before it is born.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/0/)
- [The ridges form before birth, shaped by how the baby's skin grows and moves in the womb.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/354-skin-fingerprints-scabs-scars-bruises-and-blisters/6/)
- [A baby grows inside the mother's body, in the womb, for about nine months before it is born.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/51-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up/5/)
- [A baby grows inside its mother's womb for about nine months before it is born.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/92-human-life-cycle/5/)
- [For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.540/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «womb» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/womb/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.