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Erectile vs Hemipenis - What's the difference?

erectile | hemipenis |

As an adjective erectile

is erectile.

As a noun hemipenis is

(zoology) each of a pair of intromittent organs of male snakes and lizards, usually held inverted within the body but everted for reproduction via erectile tissue.

erectile

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Capable of being raised to an upright position.
  • Of or relating to tissue capable of filling with blood and becoming rigid.

    • hemipenis

    English

    (wikipedia hemipenis)

    Noun

    (hemipenes)
  • (zoology) Each of a pair of intromittent organs of male snakes and lizards, usually held inverted within the body but everted for reproduction via erectile tissue.
  • * 1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 475:
    • Charles […] found her stroking the goanna in such a way – no one else could do it – that its pale hemipenes emerged pale and spiky from their sheaths.