Crossword clues for phallus
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Phallus \Phal"lus\, n.; pl. Phalli. [L., a phallus (in sense 1), Gr. ?.]
The emblem of the generative power in nature, carried in procession in the Bacchic orgies, or worshiped in various ways.
(Anat.) The penis or clitoris, or the embryonic or primitive organ from which either may be derived.
(Bot.) A genus of fungi which have a fetid and disgusting odor; the stinkhorn.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "an image of the penis," from Latin phallus, from Greek phallos "penis," also "carving or image of an erect penis (symbolizing the generative power in nature) used in the cult of Dionysus," from PIE *bhel-no-, from root *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell" (cognates: Old Norse boli "bull," Old English bulluc "little bull," and possibly Greek phalle "whale;" see bole). Used of the penis itself (often in symbolic context) from 1924, originally in jargon of psychoanalysis.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A penis, especially when erect. 2 A representation of an erect penis symbolising fertility or potency.
Wikipedia
The genus Phallus, commonly known as stinkhorns, are a group of basidiomycetes which produce a phallic, often foul-scented, mushroom, from which their name is derived. The genus has a widespread distribution and, according to a 2008 estimate, contains 18 species. They belong to the family Phallaceae in the order Phallales. The best known species (and type species) is the common stinkhorn ( Phallus impudicus).
A phallus is a penis, especially when erect, an object that resembles a penis, or a mimetic image of an erect penis.
Any object that symbolically — or, more precisely, iconically — resembles a penis may also be referred to as a phallus; however, such objects are more often referred to as being phallic (as in "phallic symbol"). Such symbols often represent fertility and cultural implications that are associated with the male sexual organ, as well as the male orgasm.
Usage examples of "phallus".
More Empathist work, Angin Chandra with her slender hand resting on a thrusting phallus of a rocket.
Nemes, Scylla, and Briareus move south on foot from the Pax Enclave at the Phallus of Shiva.
In the ceremonies was represented the death of the youngest of the Cabiri, slain by his brothers, who fled into Etruria, carrying with them the chest or ark that contained his genitals: and there the Phallus and the sacred ark were adored.
The statues of Christ were equipped with a phallus for fellatio by both the men and the women, and also for insertion into the vagina of the women and the anus of the men.
They have rented the old Red Hat Sect gompa near Rhan Tso, the Otter Lake, near the Phallus of Shiva.
It was not that long after first light, in the old gompa beneath the Phallus Shiva now turned into Christian enclave, where John Domenico Cardinal Mustafa, Admiral Marget Wu, Father Farrell, Archbishop Breque, Father LeBlanc, Rhadamanth Nemes, and her two remaining siblings met in conference.
Feet parallel and pointed straight ahead, right foot in front of the left foot, katana held down at groin level like an extension of the phallus.
Utopian thinking: If the true Christ came to Russia, his mission would be to allow women to save themselves from the masculinist erotic culture that confuses love either with the phallic knife or the castrated phallus.
In its centre reared a crimson phallus, outlined in blue ink, ballocks dangling beneath, inscribed with the initials G A.
Fearing to lose even that, I bestrode him and began to move urgently, but instead of rising further, his phallus grew limp and slipped out of me.
But the cutlass thrust through his belt was as much the symbol of her own unrealized potential, of the castration of her mental bravura, as it was the emblem of the male phallus.
Emily caught a fleeting glance of his thick meaty phallus as he manoeuvred himself into position.
The phallus had been reconfiscated and shipped out of the country by the time he arrived in New York.
Elvis is rather like the mythical phallus of psychoanalysis: there but not there, a simulacral shimmering, present precisely in his absence.
Kristeva treats the formation of this specular, pre-Oedipal personality structure as the reflection of the maternal phallus.