bowel
bow|el /b'aʊəl/ (bowels)
1 [N-COUNT]
Your bowels are the tubes in your body through which digested food passes from your stomach to your anus.
2 [N-PLURAL]
You can refer in a polite way to someone getting rid of the waste from their body by saying that they move, open, or empty their bowels.
3 [N-PLURAL] the N of n
You can refer to the parts deep inside something such as the earth, a building, or a machine as the bowels of that thing. (HUMOROUS or LITERARY)
...deep in the bowels of the earth...
Lyn went off into the dark bowels of the building.
= recesses
1 [N-COUNT]
Your bowels are the tubes in your body through which digested food passes from your stomach to your anus.
2 [N-PLURAL]
You can refer in a polite way to someone getting rid of the waste from their body by saying that they move, open, or empty their bowels.
3 [N-PLURAL] the N of n
You can refer to the parts deep inside something such as the earth, a building, or a machine as the bowels of that thing. (HUMOROUS or LITERARY)
...deep in the bowels of the earth...
Lyn went off into the dark bowels of the building.
= recesses