Gonad Definition

gōnăd
gonads
noun
gonads
An organ or gland in animals that produces reproductive cells; esp., an ovary or testis.
Webster's New World
(slang, in the plural) The testicles.
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Noun

Singular:
gonad
Plural:
gonads

Origin of Gonad

  • New Latin gonas gonad- from Greek gonos procreation, genitals genə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Ancient Greek γονή (gonē, “seed, begetting, birth, offspring”), from γίγνεσθαι (gignesthai, “be born”).

    From Wiktionary

Gonad Sentence Examples

  • The gonads are on the radial canals or on the stomach (Ptychogastridae), and each gonad may be divided into two by a longitudinal sub-umbral muscle-tract.

  • In the female the gonad is complex as in flatworms, composed of a germary for the formation of the eggs, and a vitellary, much more conspicuous and alone figured (ov), consisting of a definite number of large nucleated cells for the nourishment of the eggs.

  • In Lumbricus the connexion is a little closer; the funnel of the nephridium, in the segments in which the funnels of the gonad ducts are to be developed, persists and is continuous with the gonad duct funnels on their first appearance.

  • To this category will belong the oviducts in Teleostean fishes and probably the gonad ducts in several groups of invertebrates.

  • Nephridia sometimes of the type of those of the Oligochaeta; in other cases short, wide tubes with a large funnel serving also entirely or in part as gonad ducts.

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