Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hollow digestive organ, especially the stomach of certain insects or the gizzard of a bird.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy and zoology, a ventricle, in any sense; a loculus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the stomachs of certain insects.
- noun The body cavity of a sponge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
digestive cavity orstomach .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Ne plus ingerat cavendum quam ventriculus ferre potest, semperque surgat a mensa non satur.
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Qui cum voluptate assumuntur cibi, ventriculus avidius complectitur, expeditiusque concoquit, et quae displicent aversatur.
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Resemblances also exist between the endospores and the spore-formations in the Saccharomycetes, and if _Bacillus inflatus_, _B. ventriculus_, &c., really form more than one spore in the cell, these analogies are strengthened.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The Choroid Plexus of the Lateral Ventricle (plexus chorioideus ventriculus lateralis; paraplexus) (Fig. 750) is a highly vascular, fringe-like process of pia mater, which projects into the ventricular cavity.
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The Third Ventricle (ventriculus tertius) (Figs. 716, 720).
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The Lateral Ventricles (ventriculus lateralis) (Fig. 734).
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& is apparetundeinde vacuetur agarico, G-in - do, diaphcemco, roborenturque ventriculus
Morborum internorum prope omnium curatio, certa methodo comprehensa, ex ... Marco Gatinaria 1554
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