| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| phallus |
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| SYLLABICATION: | phal·lus |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  f l  s |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. phal·li ( fl  ) or phal·lus·es
1. Anatomy a. The penis. b. The sexually undifferentiated tissue in an embryo that becomes the penis or clitoris. 2. A representation of the penis and testes as an embodiment of generative power. 3. The immature penis considered in psychoanalysis as the libidinal object of infantile sexuality in the male. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Late Latin, from Greek phallos. See bhel-2 in Appendix I.
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