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• n  genus of fungi having the cap or pileus hanging free around the stem
• n  the male organ of copulation (`member' is a euphemism)

• As just about everyone has noticed, it's also more plainly a phallus than any tall building has ever dared to be.
• Playmate Kristine DeBell, a most engaging cutie, manages the wide-eyed wistfulness as deftly as she executes the phallus-in-wonderland scenes.
• What he is validates what he does: he has so long been saddled (not unwillingly) with the task of being the vitality-image or phallus of the West that every sketch, painting or .

• Phallus
• genus Phallus
• penis
• member

News & Articles

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• The mystery of the bird's missing penis
  97 percent of avian males don't have a phallus
  June 6, 2013 - The Week via Yahoo! News
• Why Did the Chicken Lose Its Penis?
  Most birds don’t have penises. Good, I have your attention. Of course female birds don’t have penises, but neither do most males. Now researchers have unraveled the genetics behind the disappearance of this anatomical apparatus. Their penetrating insights are in the journal Current Biology . [Ana Herrera et al., Developmental Basis of Phallus Reduction During Bird Evolution ] [More]
  June 6, 2013 - Scientific American
• News in Brief: Bird penises start strong, wither away
  Male chickens lose phalluses before hatching
  June 6, 2013 - Science News

Quotes

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• Hugh Jackman in Forester
  Asked if he'd been given a trophy, Hugh joked: "A golden phallus, yeah! No, you just get a whole lot o' hell from ya mates, that's what you get."
• Peter Fonda in Telegraph.co.uk
  Fonda described Captain America's star-spangled machine as "basically riding one big phallus down the road."
• Matthew Barney in Bloomberg
  Barney describes that as "the internalization and idealization of the paternal phallus."