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The coming together of male and female in the act of generation; sexual union; coition.

Used in sexual union; as, the copulatory organs of insects.

The act of bringing or coming together; connection; sexual union.

One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.

The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis.

Sexually reproductive. Digenous reproduction. (Biol.) Same as Digenesis.

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

One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora.

A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.

To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace. "I saw their mouths engender." Massinger.

To have sexual intercourse with. Milton. To enjoy one's self, to feel pleasure; to be happy.

Pertaining to sexual desire; sensual. Sir T. Browne.

A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous…

That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the co…

To commit fornication; to have unlawful sexual intercourse.

Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.

A sexual cell or germ cell; a conjugating cell which unites with another of like or unlike character to form a new individual. In Bot., gamete designates esp. the similar sex cells of the lower thallophytes which unite by conjugation, forming a zygospore. The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts, sperm (male) and…

Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements.

The production of offspring by the union of parents of different sexes; sexual reproduction; -- the opposite of agamogenesis.

e formation of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity. See Budding.