Vagina meaning

və-jī'nə
A sheath or sheathlike structure; specif., in female mammals, the canal between the vulva and the uterus.
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The sheath formed by the base of certain leaves where it envelops a stem.
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The tube-shaped part of the reproductive tract in female mammals that is connected to the uterus at one end and opens to the outside of the body on the other end. The fully developed fetus passes through the vagina during birth.
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The definition of a vagina is the passage leading from the vulva to the cervix in female humans and other mammals.

An example of the vagina is the birth canal.

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Any of various sheathlike structures.
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(anatomy) The passage leading from the opening of the vulva to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and childbirth in female mammals.

You may give birth through your vagina, have a c-section or surrogacy, it's up to you.

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(zoology) A similar part in some invertebrates.
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(botany) A sheath-like structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem.
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(colloquial) The vulva.
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Any of various sheathlike structures.
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Origin of vagina

  • Latin vāgīna sheath
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Latin vāgīna (“sheath”).
    From Wiktionary

Vagina Sentence Examples

  • This "vagina" is sometimes of exaggerated size.

  • The two ducts continuous with the gonads open by a common vagina on to the exterior behind the male pores.

  • Usually they open into a median vagina, formed by an ectodermal inpushing and lined with chitin.

  • The vagina usually opens in front of the eighth abdominal sternite.

  • In the vast majority of winged insects the terminal part of the genital system (vagina and ductus ejaculatorius) is unpaired and ectodermal.

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