MONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mons mean? 

• MONS (noun)
  The noun MONS has 1 sense:

1. a mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women

  Familiarity information: MONS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

mons; mons pubis; mons veneris

Hypernyms ("mons" is a kind of...):

adipose tissue; fat; fatty tissue (a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs)

Holonyms ("mons" is a part of...):

vulva (external parts of the female genitalia)

loins; pubes; pubic region (the lower part of the abdomen just above the external genital organs)

 Context examples 

It extends from the mons pubis to the perineum.

(Labium Majus, NCI Thesaurus)

But I was enchanted by the appearance of the hut; here the snow and rain could not penetrate; the ground was dry; and it presented to me then as exquisite and divine a retreat as Pandæmonium appeared to the dæmons of hell after their sufferings in the lake of fire.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)