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say it: vuh-JAHY-nuh
vagina is a noun meaning "the lower part of the female reproductive tract; a moist canal in female mammals extending from the labia minora to the uterus". It is pronounced /vəˈdʒaɪnə/ — vuh-JAHY-nuh. It carries one recorded sense.
the lower part of the female reproductive tract; a moist canal in female mammals extending from the labia minora to the uterus
“the vagina receives the penis during coitus”
“the vagina is elastic enough to allow the passage of a fetus”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for vagina come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.