Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An element in modern botanical terms, meaning ‘Pistil’ or ‘Ovary’

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  • noun informal Abbreviation of gynecologist.
  • noun bodybuilding, slang gynecomastia

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Examples

  • I called my gyno and scheduled an appointment for Saturday to see what we will do next.

    False alarm #257,654 r-y-r 2004

  • The woman showed no signs of consciousness throughout the episode, as the staff on the ward tried to pass her on, first to "gyno", then "renal", but by the end she was back on a trolley outside the geriatric ward.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Newsweek. com has a gallery of images that shows the evolution of contraception (or what we believed to be contraception at the time), from olive oil — recommended by Aristotle in the 4th century BC — to the hormone-releasing options that we can get at the gyno today.

    Open Rights Group forum on proposal to cut British households off from the net if one member is accused of illegal downloads - Boing Boing 2009

  • His casual reaction, "you're overreacting," "these things happen, right?" suggests they've gone through this before, with presumably the more recent procedure she discussed with her gyno.

    Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Help! Samantha Zalaznick 2010

  • His casual reaction, "you're overreacting," "these things happen, right?" suggests they've gone through this before, with presumably the more recent procedure she discussed with her gyno.

    Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Help! Samantha Zalaznick 2010

  • Mohammad Al Rahhal picked up the contraband gyno-goods at his local post office in Egypt: it had been opened by various puzzled customs and postal employees who, at a loss, defined the product in writing as "containing an unknown red liquid" - and awaited my description.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • In my non-maternal and non-gyno life I'm similarly fine either way so far, although I suspect that may be because my health life has been relatively simple.

    Are Women Better Doctors Than Men? Babble.com KJ Dell'Antonia 2010

  • In my non-maternal and non-gyno life I'm similarly fine either way so far, although I suspect that may be because my health life has been relatively simple.

    Are Women Better Doctors Than Men? 2010

  • Who can articulate a discomfort with the subliminally retro Betty Crocker ideals about femininity (the gyno/Easy-Bake Oven connection!) or ponder the limited entrepreneurial choices for women, even in 2010, when your mouth is full of chocolate ganache?

    TV Preview: What's new in 'D.C. Cupcakes'? Too little. 2010

  • Would mornings really be the same without in-depth play-by-plays of Barbara Walters 'orgasms, Joy Behar's trips to her gyno, Whoopi Goldberg's sex simulations or Sherri Shepherd's nudity?

    Boobies, Vibrators, And One-Night Stands: The Ladies Of "The View" Get Dirty (VIDEO) 2010

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