PUDENDUM (pudenda)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: pudenda   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does pudendum mean? 

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

1. human external genital organs collectively especially of a female

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUDENDUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Human external genital organs collectively especially of a female

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

crotch; genital organ; genitalia; genitals; private parts; privates (external sex organ)

Derivation:

pudendal (of or relating to or near the pudendum)

 Context examples 

The females were not so large as the males; they had long lank hair on their heads, but none on their faces, nor any thing more than a sort of down on the rest of their bodies, except about the anus and pudenda.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)