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præpuce

præpuce is the obsolete form of prepuce.

Meaning of prepuce

Noun

prepuce (plural prepuces)

  1. The foreskin, or retractable fold of tissue covering the glans penis.
    • Jehovah, collector of prepuces, is no more.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
    Synonyms:
    penile foreskin
  2. The clitoral hood.

Forms of præpuce

pluralpræpuces

Questions about præpuce

What is præpuce the obsolete form of?
Præpuce is the obsolete form of prepuce.

Words near præpuce in the dictionary

  1. præposterous
  2. præpostor
  3. præpostors
  4. præprandial
  5. præprandials
  6. præpuce
  7. præpuces
  8. præputial
  9. præputium
  10. prærogative
  11. prærogatives

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Adapted from Wiktionary: præpuce (page history and authors); prepuce (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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