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VULVA
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Irregular inflected form: vulvae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
External parts of the female genitalia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("vulva" is a kind of...):
fanny; female genital organ; female genitalia; female genitals (external female sex organs)
Meronyms (parts of "vulva"):
labial vein; vena labialis (veins draining the lips of the vulva)
urethra (duct through which urine is discharged in most mammals and which serves as the male genital duct)
mons; mons pubis; mons veneris (a mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women)
labium (a liplike structure that bounds a bodily orifice (especially any of the four labiate folds of a woman's vulva))
labia majora (the two outer folds of the vulva)
pudendal cleavage; pudendal cleft; pudendal slit; rima pudendi; rima vulvae; urogenital cleft; vulvar slit (the fissure between the labia majora)
labia minora (the two inner folds of the vulva)
vestibule of the vagina (the space between the labia minora containing the orifice of the urethra)
button; clit; clitoris (a female sexual organ homologous to the penis)
Holonyms ("vulva" is a part of...):
female reproductive system (the reproductive system of females)
Derivation:
vulval (of or relating to the vulva)
