psalterium

American  

[sawl-teer-ee-uhm] / sɔlˈtɪər i əm /

noun

Zoology.

plural

psalteria

1. the omasum.

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psalterium British  

/ sɔːlˈtɪərɪəm /

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

• psalterial adjective

Etymology

Origin of psalterium

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

Example Sentences

Quum ergo venisset beatus Franciscus ad locum ubi erat ille novitius, dixit ille novitius: "Pater, mihi esset magna consolatio habere psalterium, sed licet generalis illud mihi concesserit, tamen vellem ipsum habere, pater, de conscientia tua."

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry

Omasum, ō-mā′sum, n. a ruminant's third stomach, the psalterium or manyplies.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

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

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

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

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