gonad
nounUK /ˈɡəʊ.næd/ · US /ˈɡoʊ.næd/
Etymology From 1880 New Latin gonadēs, plural of New Latin gonas, coined from Ancient Greek γονή (gonḗ, “seed, begetting, birth, offspring”), from γίγνεσθαι (gígnesthai, “be born”).
- The shape of his gonads must set the ambit of his emotions? No. […] What Bart feels like is mother.2008, Denis Beckett, “Explaining prawns”, in Magenta, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press; Johannesburg: Saga Press, →ISBN, page 82:
- Derived terms
- gonadal, gonadally, gonadarche, gonadectomize, gonadectomy, gonadial, gonadic, gonadless, gonado-, gonadodysgenesis, gonadogenesis, gonadotrophic, gonadotropic, -gov-, nad
- Hypernyms
- endocrine gland
- Hyponyms
- ovary, testes