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penis

[pee-nis] / ˈpi nɪs /
NOUN
male sexual organ
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The Gardasil 9 HPV vaccine protects against types of HPV that can cause cancers of the mouth, throat, vulva, vagina, penis and anus.

From Salon Feb. 22, 2026

She leads nutrition education at the Feed Real Institute, an online certificate program founded in 2015 by Balaram, who also runs a company that sells air-dried dog treats like bull penis and rabbit feet.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 28, 2026

That's because it is often detected only when the prostate is big enough to have impacted the urethra, the tube that connects the bladder to the penis.

From BBC May 19, 2025

The prostate is shaped like a doughnut surrounding the urethra, the tube that carries urine from the bladder to the penis.

From New York Times Jan. 17, 2024

Webster’s had said that hypospadias was an abnormality of the penis.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Lower left: “Ex Tabella / a Paulo Calliari Verons. / depicta penes J: Smith Ven / J: B: Jackson Del Sculp & excud / 1741.”

From John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Jacob Kainen

Received from Mr. James of Dunekier eighty pund sexteen shilling six penes Scots in full of the within account depussd by me.

From Life of Adam Smith by John Rae

Silverwood, mentioned in this ballad, occurs in a medley MS. song, which seems to have been copied from the first edition of the Aberdeen Cantus, penes John G. Dalyell, Esq. advocate.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various

We really have no authority to which we can confidently appeal, except the usage of good society: "Quem penes arbitrium est, et jus et norma loquendi."

From Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell

Constantius, the Emperor, son of Constantine the Great,little inferior to his father, a worthy warrior, and good man, died the third of November: "Ex veteri Calendario penes me".

From Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects by John Aubrey

But I am frustrated as a medical doctor that a complex issue like fertility—and the trumped-up threat of small penises and “population collapse”—was hijacked without scientific merit as the main argument against plastic.

From Slate Apr. 16, 2026

Snake penises - hemipenes - have been studied for decades.

From BBC Dec. 14, 2022

“Any kid can have any type of body,” the presentation states, adding that boys can have vulvas and girls can have penises.

From Washington Times Aug. 1, 2022

England's drug stores were stocked with bulls' penises, frogs' lungs, and powdered Egyptian mummy, which was evidently used against tuberculosis.

From Salon Nov. 14, 2021

Gore, reported by Velpeau, has seen an infant of eight and one-half months with two penises and three lower extremities.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle




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