the organ in women and female animals in which babies develop before they are born synonym uterus Wordfinderpregnantantenatal, child, conception, fetus, maternity leave, miscarriage, morning sickness, pregnant, scan, womb Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectivebarren, artificial verb + wombcome out of, emerge from prepositionin the/your womb, within the/your womb, out of the/your womb, … phrasesthe lining of the womb, the neck of the womb, the wall of the womb, … See full entry See related entries: Pregnancy Word OriginOld English wamb, womb, of Germanic origin.Extra examples A scan determines the position of the baby in the womb. The baby’s head was starting to emerge from the womb. the baby growing in her womb the nine months for which we are carried in our mothers’ wombs
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