yoni

plural yonis

1. HinduismBuddhismThe vulva or vagina, or a symbol of them, especially as an object of veneration within certain types of Hinduism, Buddhism, and other cultures.

   The goddess blesses him by placing his liṅgam in her yoni.

   1997, David R Kinsley, Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine, University of California, published 1997, page 235

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   Woman, undoing with sweet pudor her belt of rushrope, offers her allmoist yoni to man's lingam.

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 488

   Stroke your partner's thighs and caress her breasts as you make love to her yoni with your mouth and tongue.

   2004, Johanna Wikoff, Deborah Romaine, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Kama Sutra, Alpha Books, published 2004, page 242

   In Hinduism [...] and Tantrism [...], the yoni is the generative organ of the Goddess.

   2001, David Adams Leeming, A Dictionary of Asian Mythology, Oxford, page 205