glans

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Thus the glans, which is quite smooth in man and the higher apes, is covered with spines in many of the lower apes and in the cat, and in many of the rodents with hairs (marmot) or scales (guinea-pig) or solid horny warts (beaver).

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  1. noun The glans penis.
  2. noun The glans clitoridis.

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  • I ran my tongue around the ridge of his glans, and Kaido groaned as I reached the sensitive back side.. I let my mouth slip over his meat, and it didn't taste bad at all. —  XXXX
  • My tongue touched the tender area under his glans, and he pushed into my mouth as he gave a grunt. —  XXXX
  • Once the ridge of my glans was past his muscle it contracted sharply again, and I found myself being forcibly ejected, something quite painful to an organ that was unused to being touched by anything except a foreskin. —  XXXX
  • I wormed downwards between foreskin and glans, at the top where it isn't joined, and heard the gasp from above. —  XXXX
  • My foreskin was still exposing the glans, the longest time it had done so for ages. —  XXXX
 

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  1. Latin glāns, gland-, acorn, glans (from its shape).

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  1. Latin, an acorn: see gland.
 

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