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Webster 1913 Edition


Testicle

Tes′ti-cle

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Noun.
[L.
testiculus
, dim. of
testis
a testicle, probably the same word as
testis
a witness, as being a witness to manhood. Cf.
Test
a witness.]
(Anat.)
One of the essential male genital glands which secrete the semen.

Webster 1828 Edition


Testicle

TEST'ICLE

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Noun.
[L. testiculus; literally a hard mass, like testa, shell.] The testicles are male organs of generation, consisting of glandular substances, whose office is to secrete the fecundating fluid.

Definition 2024


testicle

testicle

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testicle (plural testicles)

  1. The male sex and endocrine gland, found in some types of animals, that produces sperm and male sex hormones, including the steroid testosterone.
    My testicles hurt when I cross my legs.
    • 2000, Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, page 372:
      Despite your jogging and the hairiness of your legs, the shoe of aging is beginning to pinch. Soon you'll regret all that sun-tanning. Your face will look like a testicle.

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Often used in the plural, due to their usually being present as a pair.

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From Latin testicle, diminutive of testis.

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testicle m (plural testicles)

  1. testicle