bellies

Noun

belly (plural bellies)

1. The abdomen (especially a fat one).
   • You've grown a belly over Christmas! Time to join the gym again.
2. stomach (an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion)
   • My belly was full of wine.
3. (countable) uterus (a reproductive organ of therian mammals in which the young are conceived and develop until birth)
   • Before I formed thee in the bellie, I knew thee; […]1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 1:5

   Synonyms:

   matrix, metra, uterus, womb

4. The lower fuselage of an airplane.
   • There was no heat, and we shivered in the belly of the plane.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 454
5. The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).
   • the belly of a flask, muscle, violin, sail, or ship
   1. The main curved portion of a knife blade.

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