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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin testis.

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Noun

testis (plural testes)

  1. (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.
  2. (biology) An analogous gland in invertebrates such as the hydra.

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