Main Entry: ven·ter

Pronunciation: \ˈven-tər\

Function: noun

Etymology: Anglo-French ventre belly, womb, mother, from Latin, belly, womb; perhaps akin to Old High German wanast paunch, Latin vesica bladder, Sanskrit vasti

Date: 1544

1 : a wife or mother that is a source of offspring
2 [New Latin, from Latin] : a protuberant and often hollow anatomical structure: as a : the undersurface of the abdomen of an arthropod b : the swollen basal portion of an archegonium in which an egg develops