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bowel

Pronunciation: /ˈbaʊəl/

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Definition of bowel

noun

(often bowels) the part of the alimentary canal below the stomach; the intestine: he felt his bowels loosen the lining of the bowel [as modifier]:bowel cancer
(the bowels of) the deepest inner parts or areas of (something):the mineshaft descended deep into the bowels of the earth