bowel
bow‧el /ˈbaʊəl/
noun
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)
bow‧el /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 ⇨ intestineLanguage: Old French
Origin: boel, from Medieval Latin botellus, from Latin botulus; ⇨ botulism
move/empty/open your bowels (=get rid of solid waste from your body)
2. [singular] one part of this system of tubes:
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)