Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - venter

 noun  Etymology: Anglo-French ventre belly, womb, mother, from Latin, belly, womb; perhaps akin to Old High German wanast paunch, Latin vesica bladder, Sanskrit vasti  Date: 1544  1. a wife or mother that is a source of offspring  2. New Latin, from Latin a protuberant and often hollow anatomical structure: as  a. the undersurface of the abdomen of an arthropod  b. the swollen basal portion of an archegonium in which an egg develops VENTER  biographical name John Craig 1946- American geneticist