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pubic

Word definitions for pubic in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1811, with -ic + medical Latin pubis "bone of the groin" (1590s), short for Latin os pubis , from Latin pubes (genitive pubis ) "genital area, groin," related to pubes (adj.) "full-grown" (see puberty ).

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of, or relating to the area of the body adjacent to the pubis or the pubes.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pubic \Pu"bic\, a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pubes; in the region of the pubes; as, the pubic bone; the pubic region, or the lower part of the hypogastric region. See Pubes . (b) Of or pertaining to the pubis.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating or near the pubis; "pubic bones"; "pubic hair"

Usage examples of pubic.

As usual, when I used the loo I found that someone with pubic alopecia had beaten me to it.

There was so much of her, such incredibly long legs, such an extreme flow of line and volume, Beheim became entranced by the exaggerated perspectives available, gazing up at the equatorial swell of her belly toward the flattened mounds of her breasts with their dark oases of areola and turreted nipples, or down from her breasts toward the unruly pubic tuft between her thighs, in all reminding him by its smoothness of the sand sculpture of a sleeping giantess he had seen years before on a beach in Spain.

The organ was larger than it should be, the fundus well above the level of the pubic bone, the walls spongey.

Recently a hysterectomy patient-an obese woman who had developed a big pus pocket at the bottom of her incision, right above the pubic area-was tranfferred from the gynie floor.

The dilated lips between her hair-lined pink slit pulled tantalizingly away, sliding moistly down the rod for several inches and then nibbling slowly back up buffering her soft down tightly against his pubic hair embedding the full length of him deep into her warm white belly.

Surprisingly her hand slipped between them, fumbled at his hip, touched pubic hair, then grasped his manhood, raising it to a more comfortable position against her backbone before releasing him.

He counted eight naked men and five naked women plus the headmistress, who still retained her single sheer gown through which dark nipples and the darker pubic triangle could be seen when the light fell at the proper angle.

Attainment of reproductive maturity is signaled in both human sexes by the growth of pubic and axillary hair.

Slowly, the leather slid down his legs to reveal a fabulous length of thick flesh cascading from a bed of black pubic hair.

One with no pubic hair had quite a large male organ, he thought clinically, wondering how it would appear when erect.

Her belly is a mounded salt lick, rising from the weedy tangle of her pubic hair, a marine jungle in and out of which flit tiny blennies.

And at once she grabs hold of her skirts and gathers them up under her bosom, holding the rucked material with one hand while, with the other, she pulls down the front of her pantalettes, exposing the dark pubic triangle.

The pelvic bones, the pubic symphyses and sacral articulation to the innominates never softened.

I asked for the pubic symphyses, the portions of the pelvis where the two halves meet in front, and the sternal ends of the third through fifth ribs to tighten my age estimate.

She stood in knee-deep water, a small but well-formed female with pink-nippled conical breasts and a thickening pubic thatch, incredibly only ten years old.