: relating to or being the stage of psychosexual development in psychoanalytic theory that follows the anal stage and during which a child becomes interested in his or her own sexual organs
The poem is filled with phallic imagery. an ancient Greek phallic symbol representing fertility
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Word History
Etymology
borrowed from Greek phallikós "of or relating to a phallus," from phallósphallus + -ikos-ic entry 1