testis
nounEtymology Learned borrowing from Latin testis.
- 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.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 14:
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Biology, Natural sciences An analogous gland in invertebrates such as the hydra.
- Derived terms
- ovotestis, testitis, testosterone, undescended testis
- Related terms
- aberratio testis, rete testis, testicle, testicular, testicond