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Webster 1913 Edition
Gonad
Gon′ad
,Noun.
pl.
Gonads
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. [Gr. [GREEK] 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.