The surgical process of removing a rooster's testicles to make it grow larger, fatter, and more suitable for eating.
From capon + -ization (American suffix meaning 'the act or process of'). Capon comes from Latin capō. The -ization suffix comes from Greek -izein combined with Latin -tiō.
Caponization was so agriculturally important that it helped drive the development of surgical techniques that later influenced veterinary and human medicine!
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