noun
1. a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain
• Hypernyms: ↑region
2. an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion
• Hypernyms: ↑internal organ, ↑viscus
• Hyponyms:
↑craw, ↑crop, ↑rumen, ↑first stomach, ↑reticulum, ↑second stomach, ↑psalterium, ↑omasum, ↑third stomach, ↑abomasum, ↑fourth stomach
• Part Holonyms: ↑alimentary canal, ↑alimentary tract, ↑digestive tube, ↑digestive tract, ↑gastrointestinal tract, ↑GI tract
• Part Meronyms:
↑gastric artery, ↑arteria gastrica, ↑gastric vein, ↑vena gastrica, ↑gastroomental vein, ↑gastroepiploic vein, ↑vena gastroomentalis, ↑pit of the stomach, ↑epigastric fossa
3. a basket for serving bread
• Hypernyms: ↑basket, ↑handbasket
Useful english dictionary. 2012.