you and me baby ain't nothing but mammals

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_taxa_named_after_human_genitals

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expatriado@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Testicles?

Nope! Chuck Testes

latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 1y

At whom?

flango@lemmy.eco.br · 10 pts · 1y

Talking about testicle...

The word avocado comes from the Spanish aguacate, which derives from the Nahuatl (Mexican) word āhuacatl [aːˈwakat͡ɬ],[40] which goes back to the proto-Aztecan *pa:wa.[41] In Molina's Nahuatl dictionary "auacatl" is given also as the translation for compañón "testicle",[42] and this has been taken up in popular culture where a frequent claim is that testicle was the word's original meaning. This is not the case, as the original meaning can be reconstructed as "avocado" – rather the word seems to have been used in Nahuatl as a euphemism for "testicle".[43][44][45]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado

match@pawb.social · 9 pts · 1y

they took the pussymost flower there is and they named it after the balls on the roots

Joshi@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I'm sending a collection of these to my wife. Any good boob shaped ones?

zedgeist@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Melon comes from an ancient Greek word which referred to fruit, but was also, at the time, used as a euphemism for boobs.

Melons forever.

Edit: From Wiktionary:

Nikls94@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

'Fukuro cactus'. Yeah that's boobs.

sirimeow@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

I need to water the testicles in the kitchen

TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y

Orchids, arguably the most vaginal of flowers, were named after testicles? and ppl deny there's a patriarchy....

flango@lemmy.eco.br · 4 pts · 1y

Haha, amazing. I definitely didn't know that

gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y

Testickles? But who's getting tickled?

IndiBrony@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

🎶 You took my orchid / you took my orchid n turned it blue! 🎶

lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

Reminds me of when a list of "female SciFi authors" was deleted because it's "too irrelevant"

workerONE@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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