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- pubes (n.)
- 1560s, "pubic hair," from Latin pubes "pubescent, arrived at the age of puberty, of ripe years, grown up," also, as a noun, "a sign of puberty" (such as pubic hair), also "young men of the age of puberty" (see puberty). In 19c. also "pubic bone," and earlier "part of either hip bone that forms the front of the pelvis," from Latin os pubis, from pubes "genital area." In modern slang, monosyllable, a familiar shortening of pubic hairs (see pubic).
- mons pubis
- "The rounded mass of fatty tissue lying over the joint of the pubic bones, in women typically more prominent and also called the mons Veneris", Late 19th century: Latin, 'mount of the pubes'.
- pectineal
- "Relating to or connected with the pectineus muscle or with the pubic bone, especially its upper anterior surface", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in George Viner Ellis (1812–1900). From pectineus + -al.
- os pubis
- "The pubic bone; = pubis", Late 16th cent.; earliest use found in John Banister (1532/3–?1610), surgeon. From post-classical Latin os pubis from classical Latin os + pūbis, genitive of pūbēs.