prostate gland

1. 1.

   a firm partly muscular chestnut sized gland in males at the neck of the urethra; produces a viscid secretion that is the fluid part of semen

   Synonymsprostate

   Broaderendocrine gland

   Part ofmale reproductive system

Questions about prostate gland

What does prostate gland mean?

prostate gland means "a firm partly muscular chestnut sized gland in males at the neck of the urethra; produces a viscid secretion that is the fluid part of semen".

What is another word for prostate gland?

Close synonyms include prostate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prostate gland a common word?

prostate gland is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.