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psalterium

American  
[sawl-teer-ee-uhm] / sɔlˈtɪər i əm /

noun

Zoology.
psalteria plural
  1. the omasum.


psalterium British  
/ sɔːlˈtɪərɪəm /

noun

  1. Also called: omasum.  the third compartment of the stomach of ruminants, between the reticulum and abomasum

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of psalterium

1855–60; < Late Latin psaltērium the Psalter, the folds of the omasum being likened to the leaves of a book

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Fol. 54a, Colophon: Explicit translacio soliloquiorum siue psalterij beatissimi Ieronimi eusebii presbiteri quod ad peticionem soffronij transtulit ut in epistolam ante psalterium impressa praemittitur etc.

From Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University by Van Name, Addison

He made also a great Psalter, magnum psalterium, superior to any contained in the monastery, except the glossed ones.

From Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by Merryweather, Frederick Somner

Ordinarium divini officii et psalterium vespertinum per hebdomadam dispositum, no.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1956 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

The deerlets possess no psalterium or third stomach, except in a rudimentary form, and their feet approximate to those of the pigs, and they are destitute of horns.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage

The dulcimer differed from the psalterium or psaltery chiefly in the manner of playing, the latter having the strings plucked by means of fingers or plectrum.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

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