Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A woman who has never given birth.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A woman, especially one not a virgin, who has never had a child: correlated with primipara, multipara.
Wiktionary
- n. A woman who has never given birth
WordNet 3.0
- n. (obstetrics) a woman who has never give birth to a child
Etymologies
- Latin nūllus, none; see ne in Indo-European roots + -para.
Examples
“I could be the erotic, perennially sensual nullipara, the childbirth virgin, and yet I was also the dried-up crone with a uterus full of twigs.”
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Prolagus Is there any difference between nullipara and nulliparous? Maybe the former is a noun and the latter an adjective? Nov 30, 2008
john “At the height of her pregnancy, Cathy and I embodied several facets of femininity. She could be seen as the fertile, glowing mother-to-be as well as the hemorrhoidal, flatulent, lumpen pregnant woman. I could be the erotic, perennially sensual nullipara, the childbirth virgin, and yet I was also the dried-up crone with a uterus full of twigs.�?
The New York Times, Her Body, My Baby, by Alex Kuczynski, November 28, 2008 Nov 30, 2008