gonadal

English

Etymology

From gonad +‎ -al.

Adjective

gonadal (not comparable)

1. 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

• urogonadal

Translations

of or pertaining to the gonads

• Dutch: gonadaal (nl)
• Esperanto: gonada
• Ido: gonadala

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡonaˈdal/ [ɡo.naˈð̞al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: go‧na‧dal

Adjective

gonadal m or f (masculine and feminine plural gonadales)

1. gonadal

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], 2024 December 10