Definition of "wombs" []

• Plural form of womb. (noun)

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• "They protect people in wombs but have no remorse about blowing the brains of a three years old."
• "Someday, if we are fortunate, scientific research may make possible farms of artificial "wombs" breeding fetuses for their organs -- or even the "miracle" of men raising fetuses in their abdomens."
• "In its astonishingly wide-ranging fifth book, the poem traces the history of the earth from its first fortuitous formation to the emergence of the various living species from "wombs" in the earth — with only the best-adapted species managing to survive — and thence to the development of human society through various stages of technological development, political organization and (usually misguided) religious belief"