单词 | copulate |
释义 | copulate From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Biologycopulatecop‧u‧late /ˈkɒpjəleɪt $ ˈkɑːp-/ verb [intransitive + with] technicalHBSEX/HAVE SEX WITHto have sex —copulation /ˌkɒpjəˈleɪʃən $ ˌkɑːp-/ noun [uncountable]→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuscopulate• Within it, they copulate and lay eggs.• His world was filled with copulating inanimate objects and people getting their faces ripped off.• Although invisible to present probes, such preternaturally potent super-snakes are conceivably copulating throughout the icy blackness of outer space.• Why did human oestrus fade almost entirely away so that human beings copulate when one partner is not fertile?• However, a male sometimes copulates with another male.• They may copulate with the women but otherwise often have little to do with them.• A male is potentially capable of fertilizing hundreds of females, if he could only copulate with them.Origin copulate (1600-1700) Latin past participle of copulare “to join”, from copula; → COPULA |
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