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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.

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

To charm to love; to excite to love or sexual desire by a potion. Gov. of Tongue.

ass of protoplasm to a well-developed and much- branched mycelium. Reproduction is mainly sexual, by the formation of conidia or sporangia; but the group shows every form of transition from this method through simple conjugation to perfect sexual reproduction by egg and sperm in the higher forms. -- Phy`co*my*ce"tous (…

ult or eccentric person. Piece of ass vulgar term for a woman, considered as a partner in sexual intercourse

Pure, passionless; nonsexual; philosophical. Platonic bodies, the five regular geometrical solids; namely, the tetrahedron, hexahedron or cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron. -- Platonic love, a pure, spiritual affection, subsisting between persons of opposite sex, unmixed with carnal desires, and regardin…

To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonor.

The emission of semen, or sperm, at other times than in sexual intercourse. Dunglison.

A Linnæan class of plants, characterized by having both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.

Belonging to the Polygamia; bearing both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.

The condition or state of a plant which bears both perfect and unisexual flowers.

More or less permanent erection and rigidity of the penis, with or without sexual desire.

Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast. [Obs.] Pride of India, or Pride of China. (Bot.) See Margosa. -- Pride of the desert (Zoöl.), the camel.

Producing sexual zooids by budding; -- said of the blastostyle of a hydroid.

Having male sexual organs while young, and female organs later in life. -- Pro*tan"trism, n.

inute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the oöphoric generation of ferns, etc.

Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the females of some animals. Sir T. Browne.

An asexual form from which the true embryo is produced by budding.

A male homosexual, esp. one who is effeminate or dresses in women's clothing. Sometimes pejorative. Queen apple. Etym: [Cf. OE. quyne aple quince apple.] A kind of apple; a queening. "Queen apples and red cherries." Spenser. -- Queen bee (Zoöl.), a female bee, especially the female of the honeybee. See Honeybee. -- Q…

Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n. statutory rape.