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The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb. Note: The uterus is simply an enlargement of the oviduct, and in the lower mammals there is one on each side, but in the higher forms the two become more

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The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb. Note: The uterus is simply an enlargement of the oviduct, and in the lower mammals there is one on each side, but in the higher forms the two become more or less completely united into one. In many male mammals there is a small vesicle, opening into the urinogenital canal, which corresponds to the uterus of the female and is called the male uterus, or Etym: uterus masculinus.

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• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• ORGANISTA
  Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.
• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• HIGHER-UP
  A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• ORGANICALNESS
  The quality or state of being organic.
• THERETO
  1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.
• MAMMALOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to mammalogy.
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• HIGHERING
  Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson.
• PREVIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.
• ORGANOLOGY
  1. The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure. The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. De Quincey. 2. That branch of biology
• THEREOUT
  1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer.
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• ORGANDIE; ORGANDY
  A kind of transparent light muslin.
• YOUNGTH
  Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
• ORGANOGRAPHIST
  One versed in organography.
• ORGANOGRAPHY
  A description of the organs of animals or plants.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.