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MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The reproductive system of males
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("male reproductive system" is a kind of...):
genital system; reproductive system (organs and tissues involved in the production and maturation of gametes and in their union and subsequent development as offspring)
Meronyms (parts of "male reproductive system"):
prostate; prostate gland (a firm partly muscular chestnut sized gland in males at the neck of the urethra; produces a viscid secretion that is the fluid part of semen)
sperm; sperm cell; spermatozoan; spermatozoon (the male reproductive cell; the male gamete)
family jewels; male genital organ; male genitalia; male genitals (external male sex organs)
bulbourethral gland; Cowper's gland (either of two glands that discharge a component of seminal fluid into the urethra; homologous to Bartholin's gland in the female)
ball; ballock; bollock; egg; nut; orchis; testicle; testis (one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens)
ductus deferens; vas deferens (a duct that carries spermatozoa from the epididymis to the ejaculatory duct)
member; penis; phallus (the male sex organ ('member' is a euphemism))
seminal vesicle (either of a pair of glands located on either side of the male urinary bladder that open into the vas deferens and that secrete many components of semen during ejaculation)
Holonyms ("male reproductive system" is a part of...):
male body (the body of a male human being)
