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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The omasum.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as psalter.
  • noun Same as psaltery, 1.
  • noun In zoology, the third division of the stomach of a typical ruminant, between the reticulum or honeycomb and the abomasum; the omasum: also called manyplies, from the numerous folds of mucous membrane which nearly fill the interior.
  • noun In anatomy: The lyra of the fornix.
  • noun The pectunculus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The third stomach of ruminants. See manyplies.
  • noun The lyra of the brain.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An omasum

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Late Latin psaltērium, psalter (so called because when slit open its folds fall apart like the leaves of a book); see Psalter.]

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