gonads

[ (goh-nadz) ]


The organs in animals that produce sex cells: ovaries in the female, testes in the male.

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How to use gonads in a sentence

  • No young Cave Swallows were taken and gonads of adults were in various stages of reproductive activity.

  • The contents of the gonads drop into the central cavity and pass out through the mouth.

    The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote Arnold
  • Four egg-sacs, or gonads, are conspicuous in horseshoe shape around the center of the disk.

    The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote Arnold
  • The writer has recently examined the gonads of a ten months old parthenogenetic frog.

  • By hermaphroditism is meant the existence of complete and separate sets of female and male gonads in the same individual.