Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A testis, especially one contained within a scrotum.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the two glands in the male which secrete the spermatozoa and some of the fluid elements of the semen; a testis.
Wiktionary
- n. The male sex and endocrine gland that produces sperm and male sex hormones, including the steroid testosterone, found in some types of animals.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One of the essential male genital glands which secrete the semen.
WordNet 3.0
- n. one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
Etymologies
- Middle English testicule, from Latin testiculus, diminutive of testis, testis; see testis.
Examples
“A testicle is worth more than a fallopian tube – at least according to Swedish authorities.”
“Personally, I don't have any first-hand experience with the topic, so I couldn't give you my opinion on the validity of Diamond's findings on racial differences in testicle sizes, but Diamond seems pretty fascinated by the question.”
“Personally, I don’t have a lot of first-hand experience, so I couldn’t give you my opinion on the validity of Diamond’s findings on racial differences in testicle size.”
“Each testicle is in its own compartment, and while my doctor was cutting/tying/cauterizing the right vas deferens he nicked (and either didn’t see or didn’t properly cauterize) an artery that later proceeded to fill up the right compartment with blood.”
“It’s not like the water’s going to hurt his 3rd testicle is it?”
“Food fact of the day: The avocado is known as the testicle plant—not just because it’s shaped like the lovely sperm holders, but because it grows in pairs, and one side hangs lower than the other really, we’re not kidding about the plant.”
“After your son receives general anesthesia, the surgeon will make an incision in his groin area, and locate the undescended testicle, which is usually in the inguinal canal above the scrotum.”
“Lying along the superior border of the testicle is a mass of ducts, the”
“They grow, in the same way, from the inside of the anther (which may now be called the testicle) and become free when ripe.”
The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young
“Avocados, which-not so coincidentally-the ancient Aztecs referred to as "testicle trees.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘testicle’.
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Shadowtailed Riverhorse
Etymology guessing game; the words are entered as the sum of their root meanings. Let the games begin!
little mouse, little sheath, handiwork, hairy cat, sea pig, the eye of the day, suckling, clothes bag, wild ass, jungle man, little sword, water vessel and 106 more...
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Pickle and such
Words that end like pickle. Listed here because they're funny (because they end like pickle).
pickle, sparkle, yokel, tinkle, fickle, prickle, trickle, circle, snorkel, ensnorkel, chuckle, buckle and 137 more...
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Meat Parts: the Cuts, the Innards, and the Left...
T-bone - Sounds good!
Shoulder - Alright.
Liver - Fine.
Sweetbread - Okay.
Gizzard - Pushing it.
Brains - What?!wing, wedge bone sirloin, veal, umbles, tri-tip, tripe, triangle steak, tournedo, top sirloin, top loin, tongue, thigh and 147 more...
madmouth yes and yes. Aug 5, 2009
sionnach As I've always said, "orchidectomy's just another word for nothing left to lose". Aug 4, 2009
pterodactyl Is the other one avocado? Aug 4, 2009
rolig One of these plants is orchid. Aug 4, 2009
madmouth two different plants have this in their etymology--through two different languages. Aug 4, 2009
oroboros A humorous question on an exam. --Mensa word list winner 2006 Mar 2, 2007