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FEMALE INTERNAL REPRODUCTIVE ORGAN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The reproductive organs of a woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("female internal reproductive organ" is a kind of...):

reproductive organ; sex organ (any organ involved in sexual reproduction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "female internal reproductive organ"):

ovary ((vertebrates) one of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progesterone)

Fallopian tube; oviduct; uterine tube (either of a pair of tubes conducting the egg from the ovary to the uterus)

uterus; womb (a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus)

Holonyms ("female internal reproductive organ" is a part of...):

female body (the body of a female human being)

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