Definition of "vagina" []

• Anatomy The passage leading from the opening of the vulva to the cervix of the uterus in female mammals. (noun)
• Anatomy A similar part in some invertebrates. (noun)
• Botany A sheathlike structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem. (noun)

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• "What shocks you, that I speak the word vagina or that I speak the truth?!"
• "Hmm, this is becoming the kind of story that uses the word vagina a lot."
• ""2 Girls" is one of those new-season sitcoms whose writers have persuaded themselves of the comic powers in the word "vagina"—a delusion that may pass in time."