FAMILY JEWELS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family jewels mean? 

• FAMILY JEWELS (noun)
  The noun FAMILY JEWELS has 1 sense:

1. external male sex organs

  Familiarity information: FAMILY JEWELS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY JEWELS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

External male sex organs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

family jewels; male genital organ; male genitalia; male genitals

Hypernyms ("family jewels" is a kind of...):

crotch; genital organ; genitalia; genitals; private parts; privates (external sex organ)

Meronyms (parts of "family jewels"):

scrotum (the external pouch that contains the testes)

ball; ballock; bollock; egg; nut; orchis; testicle; testis (one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens)

male reproductive gland (the reproductive organs of a man)

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

Holonyms ("family jewels" is a part of...):

male body (the body of a male human being)

male reproductive system (the reproductive system of males)

 Context examples 

I've seen the plate, the family jewels, the old servants, and pictures of the country place, with its park, great house, lovely grounds, and fine horses.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)