Word Meanings - OVOTESTTIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An organ which produces both ova and spermatozoids; an hermaphrodite gland.

Related words: (words related to OVOTESTTIS)

• GLANDULAR
  Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
• ORGANISTA
  Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.
• GLANDULOSITY
  Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands. Sir T. Browne.
• ORGANICALNESS
  The quality or state of being organic.
• ORGANOLOGY
  1. The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure. The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. De Quincey. 2. That branch of biology
• ORGANDIE; ORGANDY
  A kind of transparent light muslin.
• ORGANOGRAPHIST
  One versed in organography.
• ORGANOGRAPHY
  A description of the organs of animals or plants.
• ORGAN
  A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action , which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs
• GLAND
  The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing. (more info) An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the
• ORGANIZATION
  1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also,
• GLANDAGE
  A feeding on nuts or mast. Crabb.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ORGANOPHYLY
  The tribal history of organs, -- a branch of morphophyly. Haeckel.
• ORGANOGENY
  Organogenesis.
• GLANDERED
  Affected with glanders; as, a glandered horse. Yu
• ORGANONYMY
  The designation or nomenclature of organs. B. G. Wilder.
• GLANDULOUS
  Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands; resembling glands.
• ORGANITY
  Organism.
• ORGANOSCOPY
  Phrenology. Fleming.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• INORGANICAL
  Inorganic. Locke.
• BIORGAN
  A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.
• FATA MORGANA
  A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily. (more info) looked upon as the work of a fairy of the