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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin testis.
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testis (plural testes)
- (anatomy) A testicle of a vertebrate.
- 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 14:
- In the Middle Ages, for instance, a recipe for sex stimulation required the putrefied flesh of a human corpse, together with both human and animal testes and ovaries, pimento, and alcohol.
- (biology) An analogous gland in invertebrates such as the hydra.
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