vulval
adjUK /ˈvʌlvəl/
Etymology From vulva + -al.
1
Of or pertaining to the vulva.
- In John and Salomé, Salomé's nipples are angry blossoms, her black navel vulval, tendrilous, vaguely insectimorphic.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
- Pythagoras, she suggests, venerated three-sided figures for their vaginal symbolism; Upper Palaeolithic dips in rock are chipped away by cavemen into vulval icons.2003, Jenny Diski, “It's so beautiful”, in London Review of Books, XXV.22:
- Derived terms
- perivulval, pseudovulval, vulvalike, vulval vestibule