tampon

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++tam·pon /ˈtæmpɒn $ -pɑːn/ noun [countable]  Ma tube-shaped mass of cotton or similar material that a woman puts inside her vagina during her period (=monthly flow of blood) 〔妇女用的〕月经棉塞，卫生棉条

Examples from the Corpus

tampon• Rob Small rides the winter Cornish surf; holy tampons in the water!• The new tampon, called Naturals, was launched in March.• Did you also know that in Britain neither sanitary towels nor tampons are sterilised, despite what their individual wrapping might suggest?• Did you realise that even now there are no legal standards for the manufacture of either sanitary towels or tampons?• G sent out about 60 million sample packages of Rely tampons.• Gamble marketed the Rely tampon in the 1970s.• It competes with other types of Tambrands tampons, but this is its first mass-marketed, all-cotton version.Origin tampon (1800-1900) French from an unrecorded Old French taper “to stop up a hole”

tam·pon nounChineseSyllable  

Corpus similar material a tube-shaped mass of or cotton

tampon
tam‧pon /ˈtæmpɒn $ -pɑːn/ noun [countable]a tube-shaped mass of cotton or similar material that a woman puts inside her vagina during her period (=monthly flow of blood)

tam·ponBrE /ˈtæmpɒn/ 🔊NAmE /ˈtæmpɑːn/ 🔊 nouna specially shaped piece of cotton material that a woman puts inside her vagina to absorb blood during her period （妇女用的）月经棉条，卫生栓  ➡  compare sanitary towel