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Definition of Pubic hair

1. Noun. Hair growing in the pubic area.

Definition of Pubic hair

1. Noun. (context: collectively) The hair that grows in the pubic region from puberty. ¹

2. Noun. (context: singular) A single hair growing in the pubic region. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pubic Hair

Literary usage of Pubic hair

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1892)
"ON A POSSIBLE OBSOLETE FUNCTION OF THE AXILLARY AND pubic hair TUFTS IN MAN. By Louis ROBINSON, MD THE extraordinary power of the grasping muscles in the ..."

2. Erotic Symbolism: The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Havelock Ellis (1905)
"In abundance the pubic hair corresponds with the axillary hair; ... Strong eyebrows also usually indicate a strong development of pubic hair. ..."

3. Trukese-English Dictionary by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1980)
"... Tbl.): pubic triangle. pubic hair kkor(n., Tbl.): underarm hair, pubic hair. ... Tbl.): be plentifully endowed with pubic hair (of a woman). public ..."

4. Criminal Justice & Community Response to Rape by Joel Epstein (1995)
"D STEP 4 pubic hair COMBINGS Place towel under patient's buttocks. Using comb provided, comb pubic hair in downward strokes so that any loose hairs and/or ..."

5. No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons by Joanne Mariner (2001)
"Using comb provided, comb pubic hair in downward strokes so that any loose hairs and/or debris will (all onto paper towel. Fold towel in manner to retain ..."

6. Diseases of Women: Medical and Surgical Gynecology by Charles Alfred Lee Reed (1913)
"Her breasts, pubic hair, voice, and modesty all proclaimed her a little ... Her breasts were of womanly shape and her genitals were large, with pubic hair. ..."

7. A Manual of the Diseases of the Skin by Alexander Balmanno Squire (1887)
"Now, all the rest of the longer hair of the body is the domain of the pediculus pubis, viz. the pubic hair, the hair of the abdomen and chest, ..."

8. Harvard African Studies by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology African Dept (1922)
"The pubic hair ... who has never grown any axillary or pubic hair; she is called "the rogue elephant"; a rogue elephant has no tusks. ..."

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