reproductiveadj.

Brit.

/ˌriːprəˈdʌktɪv/, U.S.

/ˌriprəˈdəktɪv/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, productive adj.

Etymology: < re- prefix + productive adj., after reproduce v. Compare French reproductif (1760, earliest in spec. use in economics).

1. Biology. Of or relating to biological reproduction; bringing about reproduction in animals or plants. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] > relating to

genitala1382

generative?a1425

genitivea1500

procreatory1576

seminal1605

procreanta1616

younglinga1627

genitable1634

genial1652

spermatic1669

testiculatory1693

reproductive1746

generational1764

reproductory1831

genesial1848

1746 J. Hervey Refl. Flower-garden 79 in Medit. among Tombs Was it only to secure a reproductive Principle, what need of such elegant Complications?

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. at Reproduction What is said of the want of the reproductive power of these parts, relates only to the head and tail ends.

1816 P. Keith Syst. Physiol. Bot. I. i. iii. 84 The reproductive organs are such parts of the plant as are essential to its propagation, corresponding in extent to the fructification of Linnæus.

1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life Introd. 47 The reproductive system has furnished a basis for the division of the Class Mammalia.

1880 Amer. Naturalist 14 45 The word gamete, proposed by the same author [sc. Strasburger], will answer all practical purposes in designating the reproductive elements of separate sexes.

1913 W. E. Kellicott Textbk. Gen. Embryol. i. 6 A reproductive process closely allied to fission is the familiar process of budding.

1972 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 14 Nov. 37/2 Certain persistent pesticides had interfered with the reproductive potential of some birds.

1986 S. Hubbell Country Year (1987) Spring 195 We are past our reproductive years. Men don't want us; they prefer younger women.

2007 N.Y. Times 31 July (Washington Final ed.) d1/5 The benefit can take many forms, like money or reproductive success.

2. gen. Of the nature of, relating to, or effecting reproduction.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [adjective] > of the reproduction of organs

reproductive1753

the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > creating or constructing again

regenerative?a1475

regenerating1707

regenerant1713

re-creative1783

reproductive1830

reconstructive1838

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Annihilation Many authors consider preservation as a continual reproduction of a thing, which subsisting no longer of itself, would every moment return into nothing.—This some call the reproductive system.

1797 ‘R. Anderson’ Let. to J. Sinclair 50 The contraction of national debt under the system of funding..may occasionally encourage governments in an extravagant expence which cannot be reproductive.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 200 We might divide the consideration of springs..into their destroying and reproductive agency.

1883 Cent. Mag. Feb. 487/1 I should regret, perhaps, that I am speaking now of original etchings only—of ‘painter etchings’ as distinguished from reproductive work.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 241 Plans of reproductive outlay, certain to pay cent per cent.

1924 Sci. Monthly May 498 We do not..secure a complete inventory of the subject's reproductive or recognitory memory.

1961 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Daily Northwestern 11 Feb. 11/5 Russell Spoor will lecture on reproductive processes including engraving, electrotyping, rubber photos and other similar techniques.

2004 D. McKitterick Hist. Cambr. Univ. Press III. i. 7 As the number of available printers and reproductive processes increased, so questions of how books should be printed became more complicated.

Compounds

reproductive justice n. just or equitable principles and procedures with regard to a person's reproductive and childbearing rights; used esp. with reference to women's rights to contraception or abortion, or to safe environments in which to raise children; cf. reproductive rights n.

ΚΠ

1976 Social Sci. & Med. 10 557/1 Reproductive justice does not appear possible in a society characterized by pervasive socioeconomic injustice.

1994 Kirkus Rev. (Nexis) 1 Apr. Some sections [of the book] give historical background on abortion rights, accompanied by pleas for reproductive justice.

2020 @NicoleLash2 6 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 8 Dec. 2020) @ReverendWarnock has been an advocate for women's health and reproductive justice his entire life. He believes in safe, affordable contraception and will support judges who will uphold Roe v. Wade.

reproductive number n. Medicine the average number of cases of an infectious disease arising by transmission from a single infected individual; (also) spec. (more fully basic reproductive number) this number in a population which has not previously encountered the disease; = R₀ n.Also called reproduction number. Cf. R n. 13, R number n.

ΚΠ

1988 Math. Biosciences 92 119 The classic definition of reproductive number is generalized.

2001 Washington Post 9 Sept. a15/1 Each infected person in Rakai infects an average of 1.34 other people... That is called the ‘reproductive number’ of the epidemic, and if it can be reduced to less than 1, disease transmission will abate.

2018 Theoret. Population Biol. 119 26 (title) Estimating the basic reproductive number during the early stages of an emerging epidemic.

reproductive rights n. originally U.S. the rights of women as individuals to control and make decisions relating to reproduction, esp. with regard to contraception and abortion; cf. reproductive justice n.

ΚΠ

1969 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 25 Apr. 21/4 The right of a woman to determine her own reproductive rights.

1978 Washington Post 16 Feb. dc2/4 We have not attained the goal of reproductive freedom. The battle for reproductive rights is not yet won.

2001 Vogue Apr. 118/2 Mifepristone,..the abortion pill that has added a new dimension to the ongoing debate over reproductive rights.

reproductive technology n. technology applied to the modification of reproduction in humans and various other animals; esp. (more fully assisted reproductive technology) such technology used for the treatment of infertility, typically involving the manipulation of eggs, sperm, and embryos; (also) a particular technique used for such purposes.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > [noun] > regular occupation, trade, or profession > technology > branches or types of

manufacturing technology1890

geotechnics1902

geotechnology1908

neotechnics1927

high technology1936

appropriate technology1950

new technology1953

space technology1957

technoscience1960

microtechnology1963

telechirics1963

reproductive technology1965

high-tech1967

megatechnics1967

terotechnology1970

ecotechnology1973

new-tech1980

analogue1986

sci-tech1990

haptics1992

1965 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 30 Dec. 9/3 He [sc. Dr. Martin B. Loeb] added: reproductive technology provides the environment in which the luxury of choice may thrive.

1971 R. T. Francoeur Utopian Motherhood i. 49 The reproductive technology we have just surveyed already reveals some of the orientations or trends our new culture will likely take.

1988 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 37 541 The Warnock Committee's remit was to enquire into all aspects of assisted reproductive technology.

1993 Sat. Night (Toronto) June 66/3 As a woman who lost her fertility to a previous reproductive technology (the Dalkon Shield), I am deeply aware of the terrible pain that can be associated with infertility.

2006 Seed Sept. 24/1 You probably don't expect to hear a kid tell you she's a ‘test tube baby’, but with nearly 50,000 babies born via assisted reproductive technology (ART) in 2003, it may not be long before that happens.

Derivatives

reproˈductiveness n. reproductive capacity or rate; (also) the state of reproducing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > creating again > ability to or quality of creating again

re-creativeness1820

reproductiveness1822

reproductivity1830

reconstructiveness1843

reproducibility1863

1822 C. Lloyd Duke d'Ormond ii. ii. 116 All told us of th' Eternal who walked forth And through the very common forms of things Breathed an immortal re-productiveness.

1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets viii. 240 A profound sympathy with nature in her large and perpetual reproductiveness.

1939 E. S. Meyer & A. D. Benton Plant Physiol. xxxiii. 604 In this range of day-lengths many species of both the long-day and short-day types will flower, although maximum reproductiveness is not usually attained in photoperiods of this duration.

2006 B. K. Gills & W. R. Thompson Globalization & Global Hist. v. 76 The superorganism is following a selfish strategy of increasing its survival chances..while motivating its equally selfish..genomes with a higher than expected reproductiveness.

reproducˈtivity n. = reproductiveness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > creating again > ability to or quality of creating again

re-creativeness1820

reproductiveness1822

reproductivity1830

reconstructiveness1843

reproducibility1863

1830 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) VI. 829 In the most insensate parts of a living body, as the Hair, Nails &c, the sensibility and irritability are hidden in the predominance of the Reproductivity, but yet are contained therein or the latter could not exist.

1881 Academy 30 Apr. 322 The common impressionability and reproductivity of nervous tissue.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 806 If a cerebral or psychical variation in the philoprogenitive or parental direction came first, its emergence would give survival possibilities to variations in the line of economized reproductivity.

2006 Owen Sound (Ont.) Sun Times (Nexis) 16 Nov. a1 Genetic change..improves the durability of the animal and improves the reproductivity rate.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	reproductive
释义	reproductiven. Brit. /ˌriːprəˈdʌktɪv/, U.S. /ˌriprəˈdəktɪv/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: reproductive adj. Etymology: < reproductive adj. Chiefly Entomology. A sexually fertile individual in a colony of eusocial animals, esp. termites. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined as social insect or association of > reproductive insect reproductive1932 1932 Biol. Bull. 63 246 The respiration of the soldiers and reproductives might differ from that of the nymphs. 1934 C. A. Kofoid Termites i. 8 The alates become functional reproductives only after they leave the parent colony and, in isolation, start a new one. 1990 Jrnl. Zool. 220 241 In the naked mole-rat,..naso-anal olfaction and rubbing does occur between the reproductive animals and also between the reproductives and other dominant animals. 2001 G. C. McGavin Essent. Entomol. 101 The job of rearing the first brood [in termites] falls to the reproductives. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). reproductiveadj. Brit. /ˌriːprəˈdʌktɪv/, U.S. /ˌriprəˈdəktɪv/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, productive adj. Etymology: < re- prefix + productive adj., after reproduce v. Compare French reproductif (1760, earliest in spec. use in economics). 1. Biology. Of or relating to biological reproduction; bringing about reproduction in animals or plants. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] > relating to genitala1382 generative?a1425 genitivea1500 procreatory1576 seminal1605 procreanta1616 younglinga1627 genitable1634 genial1652 spermatic1669 testiculatory1693 reproductive1746 generational1764 reproductory1831 genesial1848 1746 J. Hervey Refl. Flower-garden 79 in Medit. among Tombs Was it only to secure a reproductive Principle, what need of such elegant Complications? 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. at Reproduction What is said of the want of the reproductive power of these parts, relates only to the head and tail ends. 1816 P. Keith Syst. Physiol. Bot. I. i. iii. 84 The reproductive organs are such parts of the plant as are essential to its propagation, corresponding in extent to the fructification of Linnæus. 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life Introd. 47 The reproductive system has furnished a basis for the division of the Class Mammalia. 1880 Amer. Naturalist 14 45 The word gamete, proposed by the same author [sc. Strasburger], will answer all practical purposes in designating the reproductive elements of separate sexes. 1913 W. E. Kellicott Textbk. Gen. Embryol. i. 6 A reproductive process closely allied to fission is the familiar process of budding. 1972 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 14 Nov. 37/2 Certain persistent pesticides had interfered with the reproductive potential of some birds. 1986 S. Hubbell Country Year (1987) Spring 195 We are past our reproductive years. Men don't want us; they prefer younger women. 2007 N.Y. Times 31 July (Washington Final ed.) d1/5 The benefit can take many forms, like money or reproductive success. 2. gen. Of the nature of, relating to, or effecting reproduction. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [adjective] > of the reproduction of organs reproductive1753 the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > creating or constructing again regenerative?a1475 regenerating1707 regenerant1713 re-creative1783 reproductive1830 reconstructive1838 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Annihilation Many authors consider preservation as a continual reproduction of a thing, which subsisting no longer of itself, would every moment return into nothing.—This some call the reproductive system. 1797 ‘R. Anderson’ Let. to J. Sinclair 50 The contraction of national debt under the system of funding..may occasionally encourage governments in an extravagant expence which cannot be reproductive. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 200 We might divide the consideration of springs..into their destroying and reproductive agency. 1883 Cent. Mag. Feb. 487/1 I should regret, perhaps, that I am speaking now of original etchings only—of ‘painter etchings’ as distinguished from reproductive work. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 241 Plans of reproductive outlay, certain to pay cent per cent. 1924 Sci. Monthly May 498 We do not..secure a complete inventory of the subject's reproductive or recognitory memory. 1961 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Daily Northwestern 11 Feb. 11/5 Russell Spoor will lecture on reproductive processes including engraving, electrotyping, rubber photos and other similar techniques. 2004 D. McKitterick Hist. Cambr. Univ. Press III. i. 7 As the number of available printers and reproductive processes increased, so questions of how books should be printed became more complicated. Compounds reproductive justice n. just or equitable principles and procedures with regard to a person's reproductive and childbearing rights; used esp. with reference to women's rights to contraception or abortion, or to safe environments in which to raise children; cf. reproductive rights n. ΚΠ 1976 Social Sci. & Med. 10 557/1 Reproductive justice does not appear possible in a society characterized by pervasive socioeconomic injustice. 1994 Kirkus Rev. (Nexis) 1 Apr. Some sections [of the book] give historical background on abortion rights, accompanied by pleas for reproductive justice. 2020 @NicoleLash2 6 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 8 Dec. 2020) @ReverendWarnock has been an advocate for women's health and reproductive justice his entire life. He believes in safe, affordable contraception and will support judges who will uphold Roe v. Wade. reproductive number n. Medicine the average number of cases of an infectious disease arising by transmission from a single infected individual; (also) spec. (more fully basic reproductive number) this number in a population which has not previously encountered the disease; = R₀ n.Also called reproduction number. Cf. R n. 13, R number n. ΚΠ 1988 Math. Biosciences 92 119 The classic definition of reproductive number is generalized. 2001 Washington Post 9 Sept. a15/1 Each infected person in Rakai infects an average of 1.34 other people... That is called the ‘reproductive number’ of the epidemic, and if it can be reduced to less than 1, disease transmission will abate. 2018 Theoret. Population Biol. 119 26 (title) Estimating the basic reproductive number during the early stages of an emerging epidemic. reproductive rights n. originally U.S. the rights of women as individuals to control and make decisions relating to reproduction, esp. with regard to contraception and abortion; cf. reproductive justice n. ΚΠ 1969 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 25 Apr. 21/4 The right of a woman to determine her own reproductive rights. 1978 Washington Post 16 Feb. dc2/4 We have not attained the goal of reproductive freedom. The battle for reproductive rights is not yet won. 2001 Vogue Apr. 118/2 Mifepristone,..the abortion pill that has added a new dimension to the ongoing debate over reproductive rights. reproductive technology n. technology applied to the modification of reproduction in humans and various other animals; esp. (more fully assisted reproductive technology) such technology used for the treatment of infertility, typically involving the manipulation of eggs, sperm, and embryos; (also) a particular technique used for such purposes. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > [noun] > regular occupation, trade, or profession > technology > branches or types of manufacturing technology1890 geotechnics1902 geotechnology1908 neotechnics1927 high technology1936 appropriate technology1950 new technology1953 space technology1957 technoscience1960 microtechnology1963 telechirics1963 reproductive technology1965 high-tech1967 megatechnics1967 terotechnology1970 ecotechnology1973 new-tech1980 analogue1986 sci-tech1990 haptics1992 1965 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 30 Dec. 9/3 He [sc. Dr. Martin B. Loeb] added: reproductive technology provides the environment in which the luxury of choice may thrive. 1971 R. T. Francoeur Utopian Motherhood i. 49 The reproductive technology we have just surveyed already reveals some of the orientations or trends our new culture will likely take. 1988 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 37 541 The Warnock Committee's remit was to enquire into all aspects of assisted reproductive technology. 1993 Sat. Night (Toronto) June 66/3 As a woman who lost her fertility to a previous reproductive technology (the Dalkon Shield), I am deeply aware of the terrible pain that can be associated with infertility. 2006 Seed Sept. 24/1 You probably don't expect to hear a kid tell you she's a ‘test tube baby’, but with nearly 50,000 babies born via assisted reproductive technology (ART) in 2003, it may not be long before that happens. Derivatives reproˈductiveness n. reproductive capacity or rate; (also) the state of reproducing. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > creating again > ability to or quality of creating again re-creativeness1820 reproductiveness1822 reproductivity1830 reconstructiveness1843 reproducibility1863 1822 C. Lloyd Duke d'Ormond ii. ii. 116 All told us of th' Eternal who walked forth And through the very common forms of things Breathed an immortal re-productiveness. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets viii. 240 A profound sympathy with nature in her large and perpetual reproductiveness. 1939 E. S. Meyer & A. D. Benton Plant Physiol. xxxiii. 604 In this range of day-lengths many species of both the long-day and short-day types will flower, although maximum reproductiveness is not usually attained in photoperiods of this duration. 2006 B. K. Gills & W. R. Thompson Globalization & Global Hist. v. 76 The superorganism is following a selfish strategy of increasing its survival chances..while motivating its equally selfish..genomes with a higher than expected reproductiveness. reproducˈtivity n. = reproductiveness n. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > creating again > ability to or quality of creating again re-creativeness1820 reproductiveness1822 reproductivity1830 reconstructiveness1843 reproducibility1863 1830 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) VI. 829 In the most insensate parts of a living body, as the Hair, Nails &c, the sensibility and irritability are hidden in the predominance of the Reproductivity, but yet are contained therein or the latter could not exist. 1881 Academy 30 Apr. 322 The common impressionability and reproductivity of nervous tissue. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 806 If a cerebral or psychical variation in the philoprogenitive or parental direction came first, its emergence would give survival possibilities to variations in the line of economized reproductivity. 2006 Owen Sound (Ont.) Sun Times (Nexis) 16 Nov. a1 Genetic change..improves the durability of the animal and improves the reproductivity rate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1932adj.1746
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reproductiven.

reproductiveadj.

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