Meanings
- pluralplural onlyanatomyThe labia majora.
Billie's own well-developed clitoris ‘pouts’ through her labia major in a manner which, in the real world, usually belongs only to the female orang-utan.
1981, Angela Carter, “The Sweet Sell of Romance”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 5751 more example
Extending down from the mons pubis are two longitudinal folds of skin, narrowing to enclose the vulvar cleft, and meeting posteriorly in the perineum, that area of skin between the junction of the labia major and the anus.
2002, Ethel Sloane, Biology of Women, 4th edition, Delmar, page 31
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