testosterones
testosterones is the plural of testosterone.
Meaning of testosterone
Noun
testosterone (countable and uncountable, plural testosterones)
- A steroid hormone that stimulates development of male secondary sexual characteristics, produced mainly in the testes, but also in the ovaries and adrenal cortex.
- Mammalian testes contain almost no testosterone because it is sent out into the body as quickly as it is made.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 168
- Manly behavior, often of an aggressive or foolishly reckless nature.
- Mother encouraged James to rely more on intelligence and less on testosterone to deal with the neighbor's son.
Questions about testosterones
- What is testosterones the plural of?
- Testosterones is the plural of testosterone.
Words near testosterones in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: testosterones (page history and authors); testosterone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “testosterones.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/testosterones. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.