Associations to the word «Womb»

Wiktionary

WOMB, noun. (anatomy) In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus. [from 8thc.]
WOMB, noun. (obsolete) The abdomen or stomach. [8th-17thc.]
WOMB, noun. (obsolete) The stomach of a person or creature. [8th-18thc.]
WOMB, noun. (figuratively) A place where something is made or formed. [from 15thc.]
WOMB, noun. Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
WOMB, verb. (obsolete) To enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.
WOMB ENVY, noun. (in psychology) the alleged unconscious desire of a man to possess a womb.

Dictionary definition

WOMB, noun. A hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats