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

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

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

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

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