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bowel
bowel /ˈbaʊəl/ noun
 Date: 1200-1300
 Language: Old French
 Origin: boel, from Medieval Latin botellus, from Latin botulus; botulism
1. bowels [plural] the system of tubes inside your body where food is made into solid waste material and through which it passes out of your body ⇨ intestine
    move/empty/open your bowels (=get rid of solid waste from your body)
2. [singular] one part of this system of tubes:
    cancer of the bowel
3. a bowel movement formal the act of getting rid of solid waste from your body
4. the bowels of something literary the lowest or deepest part of something
    the bowels of the earth (=deep under the ground)