VULVA (vulvae)

 Dictionary entry overview: What does vulva mean? 

• VULVA (noun)
  The noun VULVA has 1 sense:

1. external parts of the female genitalia

  Familiarity information: VULVA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VULVA (noun)

Meaning:

External parts of the female genitalia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

fanny; female genital organ; female genitalia; female genitals (external female sex organs)

Meronyms (parts of "vulva"):

labial vein; vena labialis (veins draining the lips of the vulva)

vestibule of the vagina (the space between the labia minora containing the orifice of the urethra)

labia minora (the two inner folds of the vulva)

pudendal cleavage; pudendal cleft; pudendal slit; rima pudendi; rima vulvae; urogenital cleft; vulvar slit (the fissure between the labia majora)

labia majora (the two outer folds of the vulva)

labium (any of the four lip-shaped folds of the female vulva)

mons; mons pubis; mons veneris (a mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women)

urethra (duct through which urine is discharged in most mammals and which serves as the male genital duct)

button; clit; clitoris (a female sexual organ homologous to the penis)

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

female reproductive system (the reproductive system of females)