scrotal
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Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -əʊtəl
Adjective edit
scrotal (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the scrotum.
- (zoology) With a visible scrotum.
- 2008, Melissa A. Hillegass et al., “The influence of sex and sociality on parasite loads in an African ground squirrel”, in Behavioral Ecology, volume 19, number 5, , pages 1006–1011:
- Male maturity is evident from descent of the testes; adult males are scrotal year-round, whereas subadult males are partially or nonscrotal.
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scrotal
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French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
scrotal (feminine scrotale, masculine plural scrotaux, feminine plural scrotales)
- scrotal
- 1841, Bulletin de l'Académie royale de médecine de Belgique, page 870:
- Dans la cure des hypospadias péno-scrotaux, scrotaux et périnéaux, il convient donc de recourir à d’autres opérations.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Further reading edit
- “scrotal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French scrotal, equivalent to scrot + -al.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
scrotal m or n (feminine singular scrotală, masculine plural scrotali, feminine and neuter plural scrotale)
Declension edit
Declension of scrotal
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | scrotal | scrotală | scrotali | scrotale | ||
| definite | scrotalul | scrotala | scrotalii | scrotalele | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | scrotal | scrotale | scrotali | scrotale | ||
| definite | scrotalului | scrotalei | scrotalelor | scrotalilor | |||
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Further reading edit
- scrotal in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)