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pseudo-penis

pseudo-penis is the alternative spelling of pseudopenis.

Meaning of pseudopenis

Noun

pseudopenis (plural pseudopenes)

  1. The enlarged clitoris of the female of various species including spotted hyena, binturong, and lemur.
    • The males uses little denticles to hold on to the female, and inserts the pseudopenis inside the vagina.2023, translated in 2025, Berta Páramo and translated by Marc Correa Haro, Lice: How to Survive on Humans, page 103
  2. Anything that resembles a penis in form or function.
    • The use of hard plastic rods with increasing diameters, a sort of pseudopenis, can be useful, provided it is explained to the woman that these rods are not used to dilate her vagina but are a means of training the relaxation of her pelvic muscles and of getting these muscles under control.2012, Wolf Eicher, Götz Kockott, Sexology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN

Forms of pseudo-penis

pluralpseudo-penises

Questions about pseudo-penis

What is pseudo-penis the alternative spelling of?
Pseudo-penis is the alternative spelling of pseudopenis.

Words near pseudo-penis in the dictionary

  1. pseudo-participials
  2. pseudo-passive
  3. pseudo-passives
  4. pseudo-penannular
  5. pseudo-penes
  6. pseudo-penis
  7. pseudo-penises
  8. pseudo-period
  9. pseudo-philosophy
  10. pseudo-poetic
  11. pseudo-polynomial time

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