ERECTILE ORGAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does erectile organ mean? 

• ERECTILE ORGAN (noun)
  The noun ERECTILE ORGAN has 1 sense:

1. an organ containing erectile tissue

  Familiarity information: ERECTILE ORGAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERECTILE ORGAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An organ containing erectile tissue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("erectile organ" is a kind of...):

organ (a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function)

Meronyms (parts of "erectile organ"):

erectile tissue (vascular tissue capable of filling with blood and becoming rigid)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "erectile organ"):

button; clit; clitoris (a female sexual organ homologous to the penis)

member; penis; phallus (the male sex organ ('member' is a euphemism))