(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:56:05

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.

 

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