Genitals like what?!

[Kit-Ginevra]

From my history's site 'Strange Things From History' section- 'King Sennacherib records with glee his destruction of Babylon in 689BC :'I made their gullets and their entrails slither along the earth.I ripped out their genitals which were like the seeds of summer cucumbers' '

*I am not an expert in whether summer cucumbers are long and slender or short and stubby...*