noun
virgin; innocent young woman
Refers to a young woman who has not had sexual experience, often with a nuance of purity or naivety. Can be used literally or figuratively.
彼女はまだ生娘だと言われている。
She is said to still be a virgin.
その小説の主人公は純真な生娘
The protagonist of the novel is portrayed as an innocent young woman.
処女 is a more formal or clinical term for 'virgin', while 生娘 carries a softer, more colloquial nuance of an innocent young woman.
Compound of 生 (ki, 'pure, raw') and 娘 (musume, 'daughter, young woman'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word has been used since at least the Edo period to refer to a young, unmarried woman, with the modern sense of 'virgin' becoming prominent later.