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Cuniculus

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Noun1.Cuniculus - pacas
genus Cuniculus
mammal genus - a genus of mammals
Dasyproctidae, family Dasyproctidae - agoutis and pacas


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Paul Barolsky pointed out that the Latin for rabbit, cuniculus, was often used in the Renaissance to pun on the female pudenda, cunnus, and he suggested that the proximity of the rabbit to the pudenda of Venus in Piero's painting is a similar reference.
Titian's pastoral scene: a unique rendition of Lot and his daughters by Mellinkoff, Ruth / Renaissance Quarterly
7) No matter that Piero, whose work was highly cultivated and saturated with sophisticated Ovidian subjects, could pun in Latin, as he did in his Mars and Venus, where he played on the cuniculus (rabbit) near Venus's cunnus (pudendum).
As in Ovid, so in Renaissance art by Barolsky, Paul / Renaissance Quarterly
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