Definition of scrotum
scrota
play \-tə\ orscrotums
: the external pouch that in most mammals contains the testes
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Some of the other Americans injured in the annual 8-day festival endured more serious injuries, including a 35-year-old man who was injured in the abdomen and another suffered injuries to his scrotum.
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A hefty percentage of the jokes here, too, take it for granted that the most subversively hilarious thing that can happen in a movie is to show two men kissing and/or one man touching the scrotum of another.
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Carlsen died from a shot to the heart and one to his scrotum.
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Might the W’s resemble breasts, or maybe a scrotum?
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That symptom — scrotums so huge that, in extreme cases, they must be carried in wheelbarrows — is even more common than swollen legs among victims of lymphatic filariasis.
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The scrotum will hang suspended a few feet from the ground, inviting park visitors to step into it.
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Teabagging is the act of a man placing his scrotum into the mouth or onto the face or forehead of another person, usually while standing or kneeling over that person.
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The lesula, an African primate, only formally discovered in 2007, has a bright blue scrotum and buttocks that turns white when the animal dies.
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Origin and Etymology of scrotum
Latin; akin to Latin scrautum quiver
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scrotum
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: the sack of skin that contains the testicles of men and male animals
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