labia majora
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Etymology
From Latin (meaning “larger lips”).
Noun
labia majora pl (normally plural, singular labium majus)
- (anatomy, primatology) The two outer rounded folds of adipose tissue that lie on either side of the opening of the vagina.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 162:
- A new technology has enabled man to take gardening away from women and turn it into agriculture; the plow is the great phallus that separates the labia majora of the furrows of earth, and the plow is under the majesty of Enki.
Hypernyms
- labioscrotal swellings - embryological precursor
Translations
outer folds of vulva
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