Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An organ in animals that produces gametes, especially a testis or ovary.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
- n. anatomy A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary.
- n. slang, in the plural The testicles.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek γονή (gonē, "seed, begetting, birth, offspring"), from γίγνεσθαι (gignesthai, "be born"). (Wiktionary)
- New Latin gonas, gonad-, from Greek gonos, procreation, genitals; see genə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“Women are many things … but utilitarian gonad drones theyre not.”
“This syndrome is characterized by a combination of Wilms 'tumor, kidney failure, genitourinary malformations and gonad (ovaries or testes) abnormalities.”
“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.”
“Throat cutting, gonad slicing megalomaniac Arthurian remnants.”
“Say what you like, but I'm disappointed that Tiger is no longer endorsing my monthly gonad shave.”
“They found concentrations not just in the lung, but also in the liver, kidney, spleen, gonad, and heart.”
“Uranium particles, whether pure uranium or in an oxidized form, are alpha emitters, and can be highly carcinogenic and mutagenic if ingested or inhaled, since they can lodge in one part of the body -- the kidney or lung or gonad, for example -- and then irradiate surrounding cells with large, destructive alpha particles (actually helium atoms), until some gene is compromised and a cell become malignant.”
Dave Lindorff: Pentagon Dirty Bombers: Depleted Uranium in the USA
“But now with mobile apps you could watch graffiti pop out of the walls on a tab of acid while the dope head next to you sucks his own gonad, and feel like you're in your cubicle.”
Neal Rodriguez: Mobile Apps Which Keep Business Owners from Pumping Gas
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gonad’.
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 346 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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BIOL - the brain
ruptured blood ve..., clot, pressure on a blo..., tumor, brain region, comprehension of ..., production of mea..., autonomic nervous..., conservation of t..., catecholamine, arousal, regulation of sleep and 564 more...
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•body-related words that make lovely ...
With thanks to quinn for the idea, seen here. It's true that most diseases cannot double as names for baby boys—but some can. And anyway in their absence I nominate (thanks to Colon/Colin) body p...
colon, lung, langerhans, cuticle, spleen, glottis, calyx, anus, peter, pertussis, strabismus, erysipelas and 26 more...
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-ad
of or relating to; used to form names
monad, Iliad, cycad, gonad, dyad, triad, tetrad, pentad, hexad, heptad, octad, ennead and 5 more...
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Let's talk about sex
A collection of words about doing the nasty.
prurient, odalisque, soubrette, gravid, lochia, xenogamy, syngamy, zygote, pintle, hexaploid, seminal, hetaera and 232 more...
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w8f's Words
chortle, shad, escapology, gonad, suspicious, brusque, shriek, panoply, vista, grizzly, gristle, grist and 48 more...
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