vagina

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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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

When Marsyas was 'torn from the scabbard of his limbs'--della vagina della membre sue, to use one of Dante's most terrible Tacitean phrases--he had no more song, the Greek said. — De Profundis, Oscar Wilde
Another method consisted in searing the orifice of the vagina so that the scar tissue would contract it in such a manner as to effectually prevent the entrance of the male. — The Satyricon — Complete, Petronius Arbiter
[94] _Pudenda maioris statuae muliebris nigra, labia maiora rubra picta sunt; sed et in maiore et in minore statua vagina tam profunde perforata est ut transitum ab vulva ad uterum suggerere videatur. — The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes, Thomas Whiffen

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