Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An animal or a person having only one testicle.
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Examples
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The most curious of their customs is that on attaining manhood the Hottentot makes himself a monorchis.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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The white helleborine (_Cephalanthera pallens_), the dwarf orchis (_Orchis ustulata_), and the musk orchis (_Herminium monorchis_) occur on the
Hertfordshire Herbert Winckworth Tompkins 1901
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But the musk-orchis [Herminium monorchis] is a case in point.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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The renowned Tamerlane, the mighty conqueror of Asia, required a like stimulus, [176] the more so perhaps from the circumstance of his being a monorchis. [
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction John Davenport 1833
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