Intestine

Quick meaning: Intestine is a noun meaning (anatomy, often pluralized) The alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs.

Meaning

(anatomy, often pluralized) The alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs.

More Meanings

1. One of certain subdivisions of this part of the alimentary canal, such as the small or large intestine in human beings.
2. Domestic; taking place within a given country or region.
3. Internal.
4. (rare) Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective.
5. (rare) Shut up; enclosed.

Example Sentences

Hoping here to end / Intestine war in heaven, the arch foe subdued.

[…] surrounded by an enemy rendered desperate from the calamities of intestine war.

Yet the success of Trajan, however transient, was rapid and specious. The degenerate Parthians, broken by intestine discord, fled before his arms.

In the speech attributed to him in More's History of King Richard the Third: Buckingham argues that war is never so mischievous as when it is intestine.

Word Forms

• intestines

Synonyms for intestine

Depending on context, synonyms include bowel, gut, tharm.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gut, bowel, midgut, intestinal, rectal, hail.

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