| Main Entry: | procreation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reproduction |
Synonyms: |
begetting, breeding, conception, engenderment, generation, impregnation, propagation |
| Main Entry: | childbirth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving birth |
Synonyms: |
accouchement, bearing children, blessed event, childbed, confinement, delivering, delivery, labor, lying-in, nativity, parturience, parturition, procreation, producing, propagation, reproduction, travail, visit from the stork |
| Main Entry: | creation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development of entity |
Synonyms: |
conception, constitution, establishment, formation, formulation, foundation, generation, genesis, imagination, inception, institution, laying down, making, nascency, nativity, origination, procreation, production, setting up, siring |
Antonyms: |
destruction, ruin |
| Main Entry: | generation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation, production |
Synonyms: |
bearing, begetting, breeding, bringing forth, engenderment, formation, fructifying, genesis, multiplying, origination, procreation, propagation, reproduction, spawning |
Antonyms: |
destruction |
| Main Entry: | reproduction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something duplicated; duplication |
Synonyms: |
Photostat, X-ray, Xerox, breeding, carbon copy, carbon, chip off old block, clone, copy, ditto*, dupe*, facsimile, fake, flimsy, generation, imitation, increase, look-alike, mimeo, mimeograph, mirror image, multiplication, offprint, photocopy, photograph, pic, picture, portrayal, print, procreation, proliferation, propagation, recreation, reduplication, reenactment, renewal, replica, replication, reprinting, repro, revival, stat, transcription, twin |
Antonyms: |
original |
| Main Entry: | sex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intercourse between animate beings |
Synonyms: |
birds and the bees, coition, coitus, copulation, facts of life, fornication, generation, intimacy, lovemaking, magnetism, procreation, relations, reproduction, sensuality, sexuality |
| Notes: | gender is the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; sex is either of the two categories, male or female, into which most organisms are divided |
Antonyms: |
abstention, chastity |
| Main Entry: | copulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coitus |
Synonyms: |
carnal knowledge, coition, coupling, fooling around, fornication, intercourse, intimacy, lovemaking, mating, nooky, procreation, relations, sex, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union |
| Main Entry: | fertilization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impregnation of the ovum |
Synonyms: |
breeding, conjugation, fecundation, implantation, impregnation, insemination, pollination, procreation, propagation |
| Main Entry: | carnal knowledge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sexual intercourse |
Synonyms: |
coition, coitus, copulation, fornication, intercourse, intimacy, love making, procreation, relations, sex, sex act, sexual congress, sexual relation |
| Main Entry: | multiplication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | duplication |
Synonyms: |
addition, amplification, augmentation, augmenting, compounding, increase, manifolding, procreation, recurrence, reduplication, reduplification, repeating, repetition, reproducing, reproduction |
Antonyms: |
decrease, reduction, subtraction |