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labia majora

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From Latin (meaning “larger lips”).

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labia majora pl (normally plural, singular labium majus)

  1. (anatomy, primatology) The two outer rounded folds of adipose tissue that lie on either side of the opening of the vagina.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 162:
      A new technology has enabled man to take gardening away from women and turn it into agriculture; the plow is the great phallus that separates the labia majora of the furrows of earth, and the plow is under the majesty of Enki.

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