vulval

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English

Etymology

From vulva +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

vulval (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the vulva.
    • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
      In John and Salomé, Salomé's nipples are angry blossoms, her black navel vulval, tendrilous, vaguely insectimorphic.
    • 2003, Jenny Diski, "It's so beautiful", London Review of Books, XXV.22:
      Pythagoras, she suggests, venerated three-sided figures for their vaginal symbolism; Upper Palaeolithic dips in rock are chipped away by cavemen into vulval icons.

Derived terms

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