VENTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does venter mean? 

• VENTER (noun)
  The noun VENTER has 4 senses:

1. a speaker who expresses or gives vent to a personal opinion or grievance

2. the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis

3. the womb

4. a bulging body part (as the belly of a muscle)

  Familiarity information: VENTER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A speaker who expresses or gives vent to a personal opinion or grievance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("venter" is a kind of...):

speaker; talker; utterer; verbaliser; verbalizer (someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous))

Derivation:

vent (give expression or utterance to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

abdomen; belly; stomach; venter

Hypernyms ("venter" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Meronyms (parts of "venter"):

abdominal aorta (a branch of the descending aorta)

arteria colica; colic artery (arteries that supply blood to the colon)

hypochondrium (the upper region of the abdomen just below the lowest ribs on either side of the epigastrium)

bowel; gut; intestine (the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus)

belly button; bellybutton; navel; omphalos; omphalus; umbilicus (a scar where the umbilical cord was attached)

ab; abdominal; abdominal muscle (the muscles of the abdomen)

abdomen; abdominal cavity (the cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm)

abdominal wall (a wall of the abdomen)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "venter"):

underbelly; underbody (the soft belly or underside of an animal's body)

Holonyms ("venter" is a part of...):

body; torso; trunk (the body excluding the head and neck and limbs)

Derivation:

ventral (toward or on or near the belly (front of a primate or lower surface of a lower animal))

Sense 3

Meaning:

The womb

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Context example:

'in venter' is legal terminology for 'conceived but not yet born'

Hypernyms ("venter" is a kind of...):

uterus; womb (a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

ventral (toward or on or near the belly (front of a primate or lower surface of a lower animal))

Sense 4

Meaning:

A bulging body part (as the belly of a muscle)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("venter" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Derivation:

ventral (toward or on or near the belly (front of a primate or lower surface of a lower animal))