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menarche

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8 lettersPronunciation /mɛˈnɑː.ki/Part of speech nounSorted aceehmnrStarts with MEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the first occurrence of menstruation in a woman

Word origin

First attested 1900, from German Menarche, formed from meno- + -arche.

Used in a sentence

  • How old is she? Nine? Ten? The menarche is not far off – a hint of a bosom, poor child.
  • The most potent and indeed dangerous of all menstrual blood was the menarche, the first day's flow of the first menstruation of a virgin girl.
  • Initiation is imagined, but the initiate is not the young girl in menarche, about to be wed to the moon, but a young man about to become a great hunter.

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