noun
beginning with the cecum and ending with the rectum; includes the cecum and the colon and the rectum; extracts moisture from food residues which are later excreted as feces (Freq. 1)
• Hyponyms: ↑colon
• Part Holonyms: ↑alimentary canal, ↑alimentary tract, ↑digestive tube, ↑digestive tract, ↑gastrointestinal tract, ↑GI tract
• Part Meronyms:
↑cecum, ↑caecum, ↑blind gut, ↑transverse colon, ↑ascending colon, ↑descending colon, ↑sigmoid colon, ↑sigmoid flexure, ↑rectum
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noun, pl ⋯ -tines [count]
: the end part of the intestine that is wider and shorter than the small intestine
Useful english dictionary. 2012.