Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Arachnida, the opening of the female genital organs; the epigyne.
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Examples
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Intercourse requires that the male insert his pedipalps into the female's epigynum.
Everything I know about sex I learned from my tarantula Douglas Hoffman 2005
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He'll use it to deposit sperm in the female's epigynum.
Give it to me, baby Douglas Hoffman 2005
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Then he started to work his pedipalps closer, closer, making small circular motions over her twitching epigynum.
Everything I know about sex I learned from my tarantula Douglas Hoffman 2005
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Then he started to work his pedipalps closer, closer, making small circular motions over her twitching epigynum.
Archive 2005-07-01 Douglas Hoffman 2005
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He'll use it to deposit sperm in the female's epigynum.
Archive 2005-05-01 Douglas Hoffman 2005
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Intercourse requires that the male insert his pedipalps into the female's epigynum.
Archive 2005-07-01 Douglas Hoffman 2005
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They have an abdomen which is the second main body part, palp used for mating, sternum, and an epigynum.
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They have an abdomen which is the second main body part, palp used for mating, sternum, and an epigynum.
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Again and again he pats her with a caressing movement, gradually creeping nearer and nearer, which she now permits without resistance, until he crawls over her head to her abdomen, far enough to reach the epigynum with his palpus. "
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899
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