WordNet
second stomach
n. the second compartment of the stomach of a ruminant [syn: reticulum]
Usage examples of "second stomach".
The second stomach and gut transplant hadn't worked any better than the first one, even though the office had scoured the penitents for as close a tissue match as possible.
They are supposed to have a sort of second stomach that creates a gas they can expel at high pressure.
They plunged after it, were buffeted by a second stomach-churning whirlwind, and suddenly burst into bright sunshine in a clear blue sky.
Knowing as he did now the scientific explanation for the process by which dragons digested the rock in their second stomach and belched the phosphine gas forth in flame did not in the least destroy his reverence for dragonkind.