PREPUCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prepuce mean? 

• PREPUCE (noun)
  The noun PREPUCE has 2 senses:

1. a fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris

2. a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis

  Familiarity information: PREPUCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREPUCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

foreskin; prepuce

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

cutis; skin; tegument (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)

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

button; clit; clitoris (a female sexual organ homologous to the penis)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A fold of skin covering the tip of the penis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

foreskin; prepuce

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

cutis; skin; tegument (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)

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

member; penis; phallus (the male sex organ ('member' is a euphemism))