Search the Dictionary

The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love. Combe.

Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions.

Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition.

The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness.

Having a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; -- a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants.

Sexual generation; amphigony.

Pertaining to amphigony; sexual; as, amphigonic propagation. [R.]

Sexual propagation. [R.]

Absence of sexual appetite.

A sexual spore in which the sexes differ in size; -- opposed to isospore.

by transfer of title; assignment. House of assignation, a house in which appointments for sexual intercourse are fulfilled.

Producing only asexual individuals, as the eggs of certain annelids.

Bisexual. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Bisexual.

A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea.

Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.

To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do. [Colloq.]

. [Obs.] This carnal cur Preys on the issue of his mother's body. Shak. Carnal knowledge, sexual intercourse; -- used especially of an unlawful act on the part of the man.

An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. See Illust. of Ament.

The state of a communty which permits promiseuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism.