vagin-

1. variant of vagino- before a vowel.

   vaginectomy.

Example Sentences

The first lady is mentioned in season one of the show, when she shares Emily’s Instagram post expressing disappointment that the French word for vagina, le vagin, is masculine.

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And the shots of the lobby, where Borat frantically tells the security guards he needs to “defend my daughter’s vagin from America’s mayor” are back in Jersey City at the Westin.

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In one of the book’s funniest passages, we meet a French-educated gynecologist whose claim to fame is his use of the French word “vagin” to “designate that intimate part of the female anatomy that Persians, prudish and reserved, never mentioned by name.”

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Anna Vagin, a speech language pathologist and director-elect of the California Speech and Hearing Association, agreed.

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A key to PEERS, Vagin said, is the chance to "practice relationship skills in the therapy room as well as the real world."

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When To Use

What does vagin- mean?

Vagin- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “vagina.” The vagina is the passage leading from the uterus to the vulva. It is often used in medical terms, especially in pathology.Vagin- comes from Latin vāgīna, meaning “sheath.” Find out how the flavor vanilla also derives from vāgīna at our entry for the word. The equivalent combining form from Greek is colpo-, from kolpos, meaning “womb.” Learn more at our Words That Use article on colpo-.What are variants of vagin-?Vagin- is a variant of vagino-, which loses its -o- when combined with words or word elements beginning with vowels. Want to know more? Read our Words That Use article about vagino-.