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PUDENDUM (pudenda)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pudendum mean?
• PUDENDUM (noun)
The noun PUDENDUM has 1 sense:
1. human external genital organs collectively especially of a female
Familiarity information: PUDENDUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Human external genital organs collectively especially of a female
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("pudendum" is a kind of...):
crotch; genital organ; genitalia; genitals; private parts; privates (external sex organ)
Derivation:
pudendal (of or relating to or near the pudendum)
Context examples
The females were not so large as the males; they had long lank hair on their heads, but none on their faces, nor any thing more than a sort of down on the rest of their bodies, except about the anus and pudenda.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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