Definitions for gonads

gonads go·nad

Spelling: [goh-nad, gon-ad]
IPA: /ˈgoʊ næd, ˈgɒn æd/

Gonads is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 122 anagrams from letters in gonads (adgnos).

Definitions for gonads

noun

  1. a sex gland in which gametes are produced; an ovary or testis.

Origin of gonads

1875-80; New Latin gonad- (stem of gonas), equivalent to gon- gon- + -ad- -ad1

Examples for gonads

Four egg-sacs, or gonads, are conspicuous in horseshoe shape around the center of the disk.

The contents of the gonads drop into the central cavity and pass out through the mouth.

Stomachs and gonads were removed and preserved by standard techniques soon after specimens were killed.

Hypopi have been found in the gill chambers of a mollusk and in the gonads of a millipede (Baker and Wharton, 1952).

The gonads, as in other Arthropoda, are hollow saccular organs, the cavity communicating with the efferent ducts.

The dates given to gonads were, in all instances, the dates when the specimens were killed.

The gonads are pink in the males, and yellow in the females.

gonads generally extend into mantle and open at sides of kidneys.

In birds taken by Coultas in November the gonads were beginning to enlarge; specimens taken in December had swollen gonads.

gonads were moderately active in our specimens as early as mid-July.

Word Value for gonads
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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