# gland
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ɡlænd/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ænd

### Etymology 1

Late 17th century borrowing from French glande, alteration of Old French glandre, from Latin glandulae (“throat glands, tonsils”), plural of glandula (“a little acorn”), from glāns (“an acorn”) +‎ -ula (diminutive nominal suffix).

#### Noun

gland (plural glands)
* (zoology) A specialized cell, group of cells, or organ of endothelial origin in the human or animal body that synthesizes a chemical substance, such as hormones or breast milk, and releases it, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland).
    Meronyms: endocrine gland, exocrine gland
    Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:gland
** (anatomy) A structure resembling a gland, especially a lymph node.
    Hyponyms: lymph gland, Virchow's gland
* (botany) A secretory structure on the surface of an organ.

##### Hyponyms

* macrogland
* mammary gland

##### Derived terms

* adrenal gland
* anal gland
* anterior pituitary gland
* apocrine gland
* Bartholin's gland
* Bowman's gland
* Brunner's gland
* bulbourethral gland
* Cowper's gland
* ductless gland
* Dufour's gland
* eccrine gland
* glandectomy
* glandiform
* glandless
* glandlike
* gland of Deshayes
* glandotropic
* Harderian gland
* hibernating gland
* interrenal gland
* intestinal gland
* lacrimal gland
* mammary gland
* master gland
* meibomian gland
* Meibomian gland
* monkeygland
* Nasonov gland
* palatine gland
* parathyroid gland
* paratoid gland
* paraurethral gland
* parotid gland
* parotoid gland
* Peyerian gland
* Peyer's gland
* pineal gland
* pituitary gland
* poison gland
* prostate gland
* prothoracic gland
* pseudogland
* saliva gland
* salivary gland
* salt gland
* scent gland
* sebaceous gland
* sex gland
* Skene's gland
* sublingual gland
* submandibular gland
* submaxillary gland
* sudoriferous gland
* sudoriparous gland
* suprarenal gland
* sweat gland
* tarsal gland
* tear gland
* thymus gland
* thyroid gland
* uropygial gland
* uterine gland
* vestibular gland

##### Related terms

* glanders
* glandular
* glandule
* glandulous
* glans

##### Translations

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#### See also

* organ

### Etymology 2

Early 19th century, probably from Scots glam (“vice, clamp”), probably from a variant of clam (“clam; clamp, vise”). Related to clamp.

#### Noun

gland (plural glands)
* (mechanics) A compressable cylindrical case and its contents around a shaft where it passes through a barrier, intended to prevent the passage of a fluid past the barrier, used for example around a ship’s propeller shaft or around a tap, valve or faucet.

##### Hyponyms

* cable gland

##### Translations
### References

* “gland”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* “gland”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin glāns. Doublet of gla.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈɡlan]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡlant]

### Noun

gland m (plural glands)
* (anatomy) glans

#### Related terms

* gla
* glàndula

### Further reading

* “gland” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “gland”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “gland” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “gland” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Franco-Provençal
### Noun

gland (ORB, narrow)
* Alternative form of glland (“acorn”)

### References

* Stich, Dominique (2001) Francoprovençal: Proposition d'une orthographe supra-dialectale standardisée (Thesis)‎, University of Paris, page 587

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French glant, from Latin glandem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡlɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

gland m (plural glands)
* acorn
* (anatomy) glans
    Synonym: (dated) balane, balanus
** Ellipsis of gland du pénis (“glans penis”).
*** 1785, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, translated by Austryn Wainhouse and Richard Seaver, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage:Brise-cul, vingt-huit ans, l’air d’un satyre, son vit est tortu ; la tête ou le gland en est énorme : il a huit pouces trois lignes de tour, et le corps du vit huit pouces sur seize de long ; ce vit majestueux est absolument cambré.Bum-Cleaver, twenty-eight years old, has the look of a satyr; his majestic prick is bent saber fashion, its head, or glans, is enormous, it is eight and three-eighths inches in circumference and the shaft eight in length.
    Comeronyms: corps caverneux, corps spongieux, frein, prépuce
    Holonym: pénis
    les papules perlées du gland ― pearly penile papules
** Ellipsis of gland du clitoris (“glans clitoridis”).
    Comeronym: capuchon du clitoris
    Holonym: clitoris
    décalotter le gland ― to uncover the glans penis or glans clitoridis by pulling back the foreskin or clitoral hood
    recalotter le gland ― to cover again the glans penis or glans clitoridis by pulling forward the foreskin or clitoral hood
* tassel
* (vulgar, slang, of a person, usually male) prick, wanker, bell end

#### Derived terms

* glander
** glandeur
* couronne du gland

#### Related terms

* glande

### Further reading

* “gland”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Friulian
### Alternative forms

* glant

### Etymology

From Latin glāndem, accusative of glāns.

### Noun

gland m (plural glands)
* acorn

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French gland, from Latin glans, glandis. Doublet of the inherited ghindă.

### Noun

gland n (plural glanduri)
* (anatomy) glans
** Ellipsis of glandul penisului (“glans penis”).
** Ellipsis of glandul clitorisului (“glans clitoridis”).
    a decalota glandul ― to uncover the glans penis or glans clitoridis by pulling back the foreskin or clitoral hood
    a recalota glandul ― to cover again the glans penis or glans clitoridis by pulling forward the foreskin or clitoral hood