Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Gonad"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gonad \Gon"ad\, n.; pl. {Gonads}. [Gr. ? 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
gonad
n : a gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced
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