copulation
Collocations
5ADJ.
defined, entire, female, innocent, logical, male, open
VERB + COPULATION
realizing
COPULATION + NOUN
cabinet, town
PREP.
after
ADV.
correctly
Definitions
noun
The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.
I quite correctly defined logical copulation by means [of] the copula of inclusion.
Sexual procreation between a man and a woman or transfer of the sperm from male to female; usually applied to the mating process in nonhuman animals; coitus; coition.
Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.
In the dusky streets around me ruled an innocent and open copulation. The entire town mated together, in the leafy bowers that had sprung up among the washing-machines and television sets in the shopping mall, on the settees and divans by the furniture store, in the tropical paradises of the suburban gardens.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertio
- intercourse
- coitus
- coition
- relation
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
5I quite correctly defined logical copulation by means [of] the copula of inclusion.
WiktionarySolomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.
WiktionaryIn the dusky streets around me ruled an innocent and open copulation. The entire town mated together, in the leafy bowers that had sprung up among the washing-machines and television sets in the shopp
WiktionaryAfter realizing copulation, the female praying mantis usually devours the male.
Tatoeba · #2234026The female mantis devours the male after copulation.
Tatoeba · #10979472