sexual organs

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Cauda equina means "horse's tail" in Latin and describes the spray of nerves that come off the bottom of the spinal cord and activate the bladder, bowel, sexual organs and legs.

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2019

It’s a ruling that isn’t so unreasonable when you consider beavers’ scaly tails, atypical sexual organs, and aquatic lifestyles, but it nevertheless has the makings of a doctrinal fissure.

From Slate • Sep. 5, 2018

For invertebrates, the fossil record of sexual organs is varied.

From The Guardian • Jan. 24, 2018

Women with Turner syndrome are sterile because their sexual organs do not mature.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

These same fruits, he says, which owe their origin to sexual organs, should bear the names of oogonia and antheridia, according to the terminology proposed by Pringsheim for analogous organs in the Algæ.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)