gonads

[ (goh-nadz) ]

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

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No young Cave Swallows were taken and gonads of adults were in various stages of reproductive activity.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula|Erwin E. Klaas
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.
The Organism as a Whole|Jacques Loeb

By hermaphroditism is meant the existence of complete and separate sets of female and male gonads in the same individual.
The Organism as a Whole|Jacques Loeb

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