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See Ochrea.

Same as Ochreate, Ochreated.

Generating; producing; productive; fruitful; assisting in procreation. [R.] "His pendent bed and procreant cradle." Shak.

To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.

The act of begetting; generation and production of young. South.

Having the power to beget; generative. Sir M. Hale.

The power of generating.

One who begets; a father or sire; a generator.

The procreation of a bastard child. Wharton.

To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father. Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget. Milton.

To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. Shak. If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. Shak.

Not procreating or breeding freely; as, one race may be dysgenesic with respect to another. Darwin.

To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.

neration which holds that the germ is created entirely new, not merely expanded, by the procreative power of the parents. It is opposed to the theory of evolution, also to syngenesis.

preëxist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis.

To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.

Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive. "The genial bed." Milton. Creator Venus, genial power of love. Dryden.

Generation; procreation; birth. Dryden.

To beget; to procreate; to generate. I had rather to adopt a child than get it. Shak.