noun.
An organ in animals that produces gametes, especially a testis or ovary.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
In biology, a germ-gland; a germinal or reproductive gland or organ, in the widest sense, producing sperm-cells or egg-cells; an ovary or a spermary, of whatever kind, in a primitive or an indifferent state.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
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.
noun.
A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary.
noun.
The testicles.
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noun.
a gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced
Word Usage
"The recent election results have shown that the Democrats, while they still haven’t grown themselves a pair, do at least seem to have gained ONE gonad, which is better than the NONE they had before."