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vaginae dentatae

vaginae dentatae is the plural of vagina dentata.

Meaning of vagina dentata

Noun

vagina dentata (plural vaginae dentatae or vagina dentatas or vagina dentata)

  1. The mythical toothed vagina; often related to castration anxiety.
    • This notion also associates the vampire more directly with the primal uncanny. The long quotation that Moretti uses from Marie Bonaparte's writings on Edgar Allen^([sic]) Poe includes reference to the mythical vagina dentata, the ‘strange’ notion that the vagina ‘is furnished with teeth, and thus a...2005, Barbara Creed, Phallic Panic: Film, Horror and the Primal Uncanny, Melbourne Univ. Publishing, →ISBN, page 86

Questions about vaginae dentatae

What is vaginae dentatae the plural of?
Vaginae dentatae is the plural of vagina dentata.

Words near vaginae dentatae in the dictionary

  1. vagina dentatas
  2. vagina envy
  3. vagina lips
  4. vagina tendinis
  5. vaginae
  6. vaginae dentatae
  7. vaginaed
  8. vaginal
  9. vaginal birth
  10. vaginal births
  11. vaginal discharge

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