vulval en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈvʌlvəl/ (UK)
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Etymology
From vulva + -al.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to the vulva.
Pythagoras, she suggests, venerated three-sided figures for their vaginal symbolism; Upper Palaeolithic dips in rock are chipped away by cavemen into vulval icons.
2003, Jenny Diski, “It's so beautiful”, in London Review of Books, XXV.22:In John and Salomé, Salomé's nipples are angry blossoms, her black navel vulval, tendrilous, vaguely insectimorphic.
1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
Deriveds
perivulval · vulvalike · vulval vestibule · postvulval · pseudovulval