MEANING
The digestive passage between the stomach and the anus, commonly divided into small and large sections.
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- small intestine
- large intestine
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The diagram showed the small intestine in careful detail.
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- Base
- intestine
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Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: Singular intestine; plural intestines. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.
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