vomer

From Latin vōmer (“ploughshare”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvoʊmə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -oʊmə(ɹ)

vomer (plural vomers)

1. (anatomy) The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.
   • 1925, Samuel Wendell Williston, "Chapter 1" in The Osteology of the Reptiles

     Only in the Chelonia (Fig. 32 b) are the prevomers single, though sometimes fused in the Rhiptoglossa, Theropoda, and Theriodontia (Figs. 43 c, 44 e). They are edentulous in all known reptiles except the Cotylosauria (Fig. 6), some Theromorpha, perhaps, certain "Pseudosuchia," Diaptosauria (Fig. 63), and Squamata. Posteriorly in the Squamata (Figs. 55 c, 56 b) they articulate with the palatines only, as also in some Chelonia (Figs. 31 a, 32 b) and Plesiosauria (Fig. 46 b). Generally believed not to represent the unpaired vomer of the mammals.

• mover

Borrowed from Latin vōmer.

• IPA^(key): /vɔ.mɛʁ/

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vomer m (plural vomers)

1. vomer, vomer bone

• “vomer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• morve

• vōmis

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwoː.mɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɔː.mer]

vōmer m (genitive vōmeris); third declension

1. ploughshare

   vomere findere terras ― to cleave the earth by plow

2. (informal) penis

Third-declension noun.

• vōmeronāsālis

• “vomer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vomer in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “vomer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vomer”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French vomer.

vomer n (plural vomere)

1. vomer, vomer bone