Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An organ in animals that produces gametes, especially a testis or ovary.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology, a germ-gland; a germinal or reproductive gland or organ, in the widest sense, producing sperm-cells or egg-cells; an ovary or a spermary, of whatever kind, in a primitive or an indifferent state.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy A
sex organ that producesgametes ; specifically, atesticle orovary . - noun slang, in the plural The testicles.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The recent election results have shown that the Democrats, while they still haven’t grown themselves a pair, do at least seem to have gained ONE gonad, which is better than the NONE they had before.
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Women are many things … but utilitarian gonad drones theyre not.
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And the cute couple at the base, performing gonad duty.
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Like being associated with a lying, unreliable and discredited Governor, given to flights of gonad fantasies, would be a resume-enhancing experience.
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This syndrome is characterized by a combination of Wilms 'tumor, kidney failure, genitourinary malformations and gonad (ovaries or testes) abnormalities.
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Throat cutting, gonad slicing megalomaniac Arthurian remnants.
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Throat cutting, gonad slicing megalomaniac Arthurian remnants.
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They found concentrations not just in the lung, but also in the liver, kidney, spleen, gonad, and heart.
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Throat cutting, gonad slicing megalomaniac Arthurian remnants.
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Say what you like, but I'm disappointed that Tiger is no longer endorsing my monthly gonad shave.
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