different between gonad vs nonad

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (gon?, “seed, begetting, birth, offspring”), from ????????? (gígnesthai, “be born”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????.næd/

Noun

gonad (plural gonads)

1. (anatomy) A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary.
2. (slang, chiefly in the plural) The testicles.

Synonyms

• (sex gland): sex gland

Derived terms

• gonadal
• gonadectomy
• gonadic
• gonadoblastoma
• nad

Translations

Further reading

• Sex organ on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gonad at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Dagon, Dogan, Gonda, dango, dogan, donga, goand

English

Etymology

From non- +? -ad.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n??næd/, /?n?-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?no?næd/, /?n?-/
• Hyphenation: no?nad

Noun

nonad (plural nonads)

1. (rare) Synonym of ennead (“collection or series of nine things”)
   • 1891, The Yoga-vásishtha-mahárámáyana of Válmiki

     By Trisection of the three sections of a Tripartite circle. Symbolical of a nonad or nine fold nature of the Deity.

   • 1921, Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society (page 6)

     The nonuply perspective nonads of Milne are distinct from all cases of cyclic nonads given by the theory of section I. of this paper […]

   • 2020, John Krey, The Structure of Knowledge Using Natural Patterns (page 3)

     The beginning, middle and end of the nonad forms a triad, […]

Coordinate terms

• (group) monad, duad/dyad, triad, tetrad, pentad, hexad, heptad, octad, ennead/nonad, decad/decade, hendecad, dodecad/duodecade, chiliad

Derived terms

• nonadic

Translations

Anagrams

• Danno, Donna, Nando, donna, nonda