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Vagina

The female organ of sexual intercourse, the birth canal. The lower part of the female reproductive tract; a moist canal in female mammals extending from the labia minora to the uterus; the vagina receives the penis during coitus; the vagina is elastic enough to allow the passage of a fetus.The area where the penis is inserted for reproductive purposes in fertilisation of mammals, and in due course, the passage way in which the unborn child enters the world.