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  • noun Plural of penis.

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  • noun Plural form of penis.

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Examples

  • I'd also imagine that some apes having sex in the past sit on the causal chain which causes Richard Dawkins to imagine things, therefore ape penes are responsible for the illusion of intelligent agency or information in his books.

    Dawkins Misuses Science 2007

  • She not only has no penis, she has no penes, because most male lizards have two penes which make them hemipenes.

    Autotomous Penes & Endless War 2009

  • Anostracans are sexually dimorphic; the males have a pair of ventral penes on their genital segments, while the females have a ventral, medial brood pouch to hold their eggs.

    Crustacea 2008

  • There are creatures, as it is said, (sit fides penes authorem, but there appears no contradiction that there should be such), that, with language and reason and a shape in other things agreeing with ours, have hairy tails; others where the males have no beards, and others where the females have.

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • Scio quam vana sit et inefficax humanorum verborum penes afflictos consolatio, nisi verbum Dei audiatur, a quo vita, refrigeratio, solatium, poenitentia.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ecclesiastical discipline, penes Episcopos, subordinate as the other.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Note 118: VW 3.6, pp. 129 — 32, at 130: "amicum suum qui penes uos est uisitare dilectissimum"; and p. 131: "Ecce regina celi et domini mater patronum huic ecclesie adeo assignatum martirem Willelmum amicum equidem suum uisitare dilectum uenit, coronauit, eique pro libito curandi potestatem contulit." back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • The words are, penes ittum gloria, penes hunc palma.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • They want us to believe that all men pull their penes out in public, and not only do we pull them out to take a leak, we also masturbate in front of other people.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Nathaniel Livingston 2006

  • They want us to believe that all men pull their penes out in public, and not only do we pull them out to take a leak, we also masturbate in front of other people.

    Kim Hale's Husband Convicted Of Public Masturbation Nathaniel Livingston 2006

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  • "Plural form of science" --Wiktionary

    May 27, 2011

  • I think you might have read that wrong, HH. What I saw a moment ago on Wiktionary was this: "(chiefly sciences) Plural form of penis"

    May 27, 2011