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LABIUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: labia   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A liplike structure that bounds a bodily orifice (especially any of the four labiate folds of a woman's vulva)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

external body part (any body part visible externally)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "labium"):

labia majora (the two outer folds of the vulva)

labia minora (the two inner folds of the vulva)

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

vulva (external parts of the female genitalia)

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