pudend-, puden-, pudic- +
(Latin: originally, "that which one should be ashamed of"; the external organs of generation; from pudere "to cause shame".)
2. To dishonor.
The origin of this gesture is considered to be speculative, but it is quite possibly up to 2500 years old.
It is identified as the digitus impudicus, "impudent finger" in Ancient Roman writings and reference is made to using the finger in the Ancient Greek comedy, The Clouds, by Aristophanes. It was defined there as a gesture intended to insult someone.
2. Impudent conduct or language.
3. Offensively bold behavior; impertinence, insolence, cheekiness.
4. Lack of modesty; shamelessness.
2. Characterized by offensive boldness; insolent or impertinent.
2. In an impudent or impertinent manner.
2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected.
3. In mechanics, having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer or sensitive scales.
4. In chemistry and photography, readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; such as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances it is extremely sensitive to actinic rays.
5. Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.
6. Sensitive fern, an American fern (Onoclea sensibilis), the leaves of which, when plucked, show a slight tendency to fold together.
7. In physics, a sensitive flame is a gas flame so arranged that under a suitable adjustment of pressure it is exceedingly sensitive to sounds causing it to roar, flare, or become suddenly shortened or extinguished, by slight sounds of the proper pitch.
Primary sexual characteristics, narrowly defined, as any of those anatomical parts of the body which are involved in sexual reproduction and constitute the reproductive system in a complex organism.
The Latin term genitalia, anglicized as genitals, is used to describe the sex organs, and in the English language this term and genital area are most often used to describe the externally visible sex organs; known as, primary genitalia or external genitalia.
2. A reference to the pudendum.
A sex organ, or primary sexual characteristic, narrowly defined, as any of those anatomical parts of the body which are involved in sexual reproduction and constitute the reproductive system in a complex organism.
Commonly used to denote the entire external female genitalia (i.e., to include the clitoris and urethra as well).
2. Of or pertaining to the external organs of generation.
