Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural The genitals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology, the generative organs; the genitals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The sex organs, especially the external sex organs, called the
external genitalia ; the genitals.
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- noun
genital or sex organs - noun a collection of
genitals
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun external sex organ
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"On the female nude," he explains, "the genitalia is tucked away, but on the male nude, even if everything is else tight and taut, there's still that one part that's hanging out and is very exposed."
Jill Di Donato: Dudes Who Shoot Nudes Jill Di Donato 2010
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"On the female nude," he explains, "the genitalia is tucked away, but on the male nude, even if everything is else tight and taut, there's still that one part that's hanging out and is very exposed."
Jill Di Donato: Dudes Who Shoot Nudes Jill Di Donato 2010
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Showing off your genitalia is NOT a liberal thing.
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"On the female nude," he explains, "the genitalia is tucked away, but on the male nude, even if everything is else tight and taut, there's still that one part that's hanging out and is very exposed."
Jill Di Donato: Dudes Who Shoot Nudes Jill Di Donato 2010
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Hmm. Perhaps the original prints were made to suggest that mariners had sexual congress with denizens of the deep (hence the tail bifurcation) but genitalia is significantly not there in either picture.
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Now, of course talking about genitalia is a little crass, no matter what gender one is.
The Vagina Monologues, second time around fantasyecho 2008
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Maryland Delegate LeRoy E. Myers Jr. has filed legislation to ban the display of those oh-so-chic Truck Nuts and "anatomically correct" human or animal genitalia from the back of pick-up trucks.
Boing Boing 2007
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Lifting fat to find any semblance of genitalia is a turnoff.
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What people do with their genitalia is irrelevant.
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"It's never done" (regarding manipulating nipples during a breast exam), rectal exams are "teaching standards that are rarely applied," and that touching the genitalia is "unnecessary because most abnormalities are obvious," are all statements that are simply not true.
Medpundit 2003
thtownse commented on the word genitalia
This is the only word that sounds worse than 'genitals'.
June 26, 2008