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Gonad

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.

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Ball 76% connected

Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Egg 76% connected

The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or album…

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Nut 76% connected

The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing…

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Orchis 76% connected

A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. They are perennial herbs growing from a tub…

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Ovary 76% connected

That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower.

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Testicle 76% connected

One of the essential male genital glands which secrete the semen.

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Testis 76% connected

A testicle.

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