gonadal
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
gonadal (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the gonads
- 1987 April 25, Robert Halfhill, “Genetically Superior Queers: Sound Biological Evidence”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
- In the future, artificial means of reproduction will become possible. Perhaps we will inject the genetic material from one of each partner's sperm into either a synthetic human cell or a gonadal cell with its own nuclear DNA removed beforehand, and grow the resulting emmbryo to term in an artificial uterus.
Derived terms
Translations
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡonaˈdal/ [ɡo.naˈð̞al]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: go‧na‧dal
Adjective
gonadal m or f (masculine and feminine plural gonadales)
Further reading
- “gonadal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024