vagina
pronunciation
How to pronounce vagina in British English:
UK [vəˈdʒaɪnə]
How to pronounce vagina in American English:
US [vəˈdʒaɪnə]
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- Noun:
- the lower part of the female reproductive tract; a moist canal in female mammals extending from the labia minora to the uterus
Word Origin
- vagina
- vagina: see vanilla
- vagina (n.)
- "sexual passage of the female from the vulva to the uterus," 1680s, medical Latin, from specialized use of Latin vagina "sheath, scabbard, covering; sheath of an ear of grain, hull, husk" (plural vaginae), from PIE *wag-ina- (cognates: Lithuanian vožiu "ro cover with a hollow thing"), from root *wag- "to break, split, bite." Probably the ancient notion is of a sheath made from a split piece of wood (see sheath). A modern medical word; the Latin word was not used in an anatomical sense in classical times. Anthropological vagina dentata is attested from 1902.
Example
- 1. God forbid they find out they have a vagina !
- 2. Then they shoved sticks in her vagina .
- 3. The young lady was born without a vagina .
- 4. The walls of the vagina are highly absorptive .
- 5. Some girls have more than one vagina .