[Ads-l] OT: Sheelanagige was Re: It was not permitted to pass.

[Stephen Goranson]

In case no one has mentioned it, the collocation vagina dentata occurs in botany at least back to the 18th century. E.g. (from 1751, John Hill, A General Natural History v. 2):


https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435031092307;view=1up;seq=161


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SG

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