Crossword clues for gonad
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gonad \Gon"ad\, n.; pl. Gonads. [Gr. ? that which generates.]
(Anat.)
One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in
both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a
generative gland; a germ gland.
--Wiedersheim.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1880, from Modern Latin gonas (plural gonades), coined from Greek gone, gonos "seed, act of generation, race, family," from gignesthai "be born," related to genos "race, birth, descent" (see genus). Related: gonads.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary. 2 (context slang in the plural English) The testicles.
WordNet
n. a gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced [syn: sex gland]
Wikipedia
A gonad or sex gland or reproductive gland is an endocrine gland that produces the gametes (sex cells) of an organism. In the female of the species the reproductive cells are the egg cells, and in the male the reproductive cells are the sperm. The male gonad, the testicle, produces sperm in the form of spermatozoa. The female gonad, the ovary, produces egg cells. Both of these gametes, are haploid germ cells.
Usage examples of "gonad".
Dr Sigmund Gonad, a retired gynaecologist who specialised in seeing disturbed women through their pregnancies.
I instinctively looked down but Dr Gonad had slid his feet back under his consulting chair.
Dr Gonad burped as one does after a good meal, settled himself with a single sideways movement, then sprang on to his desk and was quite suddenly aware of my presence.
Dr Gonad was a freak, a simple homespun, back-street freak and I had been letting my imagination run away with my emotions.
Dr Gonad is looking at me now, staring, it seems, straight through me, or is it at me, or at something ON me?
Dr Gonad said it was the birth -- having quads and complications -- believing herself to be her own fifth child.
I was there for the births -- Dr Gonad, Hammersmith Hospital, private room.
They believed that the gonads only affected the brain through the release of testosterone!
With bent filth it was all about baiting the trap and making sure you grabbed the fucker painfully and with malice aforethought by their gonads, therefore ensuring their full and frank cooperation.
It seemed to him that too much of his time had been spent following the commands of his gonads and his emotions.
If he did not bring at least one back for questioning, Voocim would consign his gonads to the kitchen.
We rolled around without making much progress for a few seconds, and then I accidentally pushed his gonads into the space normally reserved for his pancreas.
Sooty roof to scaffold platform, Jilly folded in to the church with the expectation of finding the third gunman and kicking him in the head, the gut, the gonads, or any other kickable surface that might be presented to her.
Jilly folded in to the church with the expectation of finding the third gunman and kicking him in the head, the gut, the gonads, or any other kickable surface that might be presented to her.
Because of this interrelationship between the pituitary and the gonads, the failure of the pituitary to hold up its end is as surely asexualizing as castration or ovariectomy would be.