gonad
noun/ˈɡəʊnæd/
/ˈɡəʊnæd/
(anatomy)- a male sex organ that produces sperm; a female sex organ that produces eggsWord Originlate 19th cent.: from modern Latin gonades, plural of gonas, from Greek gonē ‘generation, seed’.
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