OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 11577

foreskin

/ˈfɔːskɪn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
prepucio
The nerve-dense, retractable fold of skin which covers and protects the glans of the penis in humans and some other mammals.
And the vncircumcised man-child, whose flesh of his foreskinne is not circumcised, that soule shall be cut off from his people: hee hath broken my couenant.
In the female genitalia, the clitoral hood is homologous to the foreskin.
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