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you and me baby ain't nothing but mammals (mander.xyz)

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

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[-] flango@lemmy.eco.br 13 points 1 week ago

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