aboma

(Local (Guiana) name.) A large and formidable American snake, called also the ringed boa. It is the Epic rat is Cenchrea. Anciently it was worshipped by the Mexicans. ab-o-mā-sus, ab-ô-mā-sum, s. [Lat. ab; omasum, a Latin or Gallic word signifying the stomach of a bullock.] The fourth stomach in a ruminating animal. Its sides are wrinkled, and it is the true organ of digestion. Analogous to the simple stomach of other mammals.