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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A reproductive organ that releases both eggs and sperm or that contains both ovarian and testicular tissue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hermaphrodite generative organ, having at once the function of an ovary and of a testis, such as occur in many monœcious mollusks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology A
hermaphroditic gonad , found in certaingastropods , that produces bothsperm andeggs
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun hermaphroditic gonad that contains both testicular and ovarian tissue
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It could be the albumen gland or the ovotestis or a part of the digestive gland.
Archive 2009-06-01 AYDIN 2009
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It could be the albumen gland or the ovotestis or a part of the digestive gland.
Looking thru the shell of a snail AYDIN 2009
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