Meanings
nounomasus (plural not attested)
- no pluralThe omasum.
1658: after a fuller mastication, and salivous mixture, what part thereof descendeth again, in a moist and succulent body, it slides down the softer and more permeable Orifice, into the Omasus or third stomack — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 192)
Origin
Misinterpretation of Latin omasum.
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