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Testis

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A testicle of a vertebrate.

    "In the Middle Ages, for instance, a recipe for sex stimulation required the putrefied flesh of a human corpse, together with both human and animal testes and ovaries, pimento, and alcohol."

  2. 2
    one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens wordnet
  3. 3
    An analogous gland in invertebrates such as the hydra.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin testis.

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