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Definition of: phallus
(fal′əs) noun plural ·li (-ī)
1. A figure of the male generative organ, used in many systems of religion, especially in the Orient, as a symbol of the generative power of nature.
2. The generative organ of the male or the clitoris of the female.
3. Psychoanal. The sexually immature penis. [<L <Gk. phallos penis]
—phal′lic or phal′li·cal adjective
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