monorchid
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of monorchid
First recorded in 1820–30; New Latin monorchis (erroneous plural monorchides); mon-, orchid ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Public Library wants your Monorchid and Frodus records.
From Washington Post
Again, there was no evidence for this, but the possibility that Hitler was sexually frustrated, or perhaps monorchid, was eagerly taken up by Langer's colleagues at OSS.
From The Guardian
Monorchid, mo-nork′id, adj. having only one testicle.—n.
From Project Gutenberg
With them a monorchid was not supposed to beget twins; when twins are born in the family, the mother generally smothers the female, if one happens to be such; if not, then the feeblest of the two is sacrificed.
From Project Gutenberg
William Thomas Andrews was a dwarf seventeen years old, whose head measured in circumference 35 inches; from one external auditory meatus to another, 27 1/4 inches; from the chin over the cranial summit to the suboccipital protuberance, 37 1/2 inches; the distance from the chin to the pubes was 20 inches; and from the pubes to the soles of the feet, 16; he was a monorchid.
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