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f the genus Necrophorus and allied genera; -- called also burying beetle, carrion beetle, sexton beetle.

not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex; as, a neuter noun; a neuter termination; the neuter gender.

A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariæ by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.

Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.

instrument and clock; the sun's altitude, or the distance of the moon from a star, with a sextant; the temperature, with a thermometer, etc.

To have sexual intercourse with. [Obs.] Nares.

having an arc which measures up to 9Oº, but being itself the eighth part of a circle. Cf. Sextant.

Of or pertaining to sexual desire; -- mostly applied to brute animals; as, the oestrual period; oestrual influence.

The state of being under oestrual influence, or of having sexual desire.

A vehement desire; esp. (Physiol.), the periodical sexual impulse of animals; heat; rut.

plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted with the sporophore, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless number. In ferns the oöphore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant.

posed class or grand division (collectively termed oöphytes or Oöphyta), which have their sexual reproduction accomplished by motile antherozoids acting on oöspheres, either while included in their oögonia or after exclusion.

Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite extreme.

e state of turgescence of any organ; erethism; esp., the height of venereal excitement in sexual intercourse.

e mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palp. See Illust. of Arthrogastra and Orthoptera.

A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; -- used of a man or a woman. The seducer appeared with dauntless front, accompanied by his paramour Macaulay.

By or with love, esp. the love of the sexes; -- sometimes written as two words. [Obs.] For par amour, I loved her first ere thou. Chaucer.

The production of seed without fertilization, believed to occur through the nonsexual formation of an embryo extraneous to the embrionic vesicle.

overing for the neck, and sometimes for the shoulders and breast; originally worn by both sexes, but laterby women alone; a ruff. [Obs.] Fuller.

e in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary. To so perverse a sex all grace is vain. Dryden.