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pe·nes

(pē'nēz),
Plural of penis, as in diphallus.
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penes

(pē′nēz)
n.
A plural of penis.
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pe·nes

(pē'nēz)
Plural of penis.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
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Maximum length 2.1 mm, mature males always with 20 segments (including posteriormost segment surrounding penes and pygidium), mature females with 17 segments.
In the field, 31% of females had rudimentary penes, suggesting sex change, and laboratory growth experiments confirmed that females produced one brood of juveniles, then passed through a variable number of molts as immature males before becoming sexually mature males.
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