Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating or pertaining to copulation: specifically, in zoology, applied to the accessory generative organs.
  • Uniting; copulative.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to copulation; tending or serving to unite; copulative.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) Used in sexual union.

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  • adjective Pertaining to copulation

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to coitus or copulation

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Examples

  • As always, Enright is good at that, as she is at sexual desire, the "copulatory crackle in the air" between the two lovers.

    The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright – review 2011

  • Two Packs liked to eat boiled rabbit testicles, said it imbued a certain copulatory vigor.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • Two Packs liked to eat boiled rabbit testicles, said it imbued a certain copulatory vigor.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • Any newsletters (why?) should be put together by literate community service scrotes under the eye of a retired newspaper editor whose every second word was copulatory.

    “We Run ‘Tings, Tings Don’t Run We” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Just because these men happen to have homosexual copulatory experience, does not make them experts in any matter of sexual orientation.

    2008 October 18 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • While the British and French studies measured male reproductive success by observed successful copulations, the Japanese one estimated the number of successful copulations, based on female pre-copulatory behavior.

    The Panda's Thumb: Guest Contributor Archives 2010

  • A grainy video, purportedly taken of him in high school, showed him dancing naked in the bathroom and making copulatory hip movements.

    Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010

  • That necklace with a pendent that is actually five inches long, made of two figures with bullet heads and pointy shoulders, tangled up in a copulatory weave.

    Something Better Than This Mary Gaitskill 2010

  • Just because these men happen to have homosexual copulatory experience, does not make them experts in any matter of sexual orientation.

    The Correns Are At It Again « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • The newly hatched young amphipods stay in the marsupium until the female undergoes a post-copulatory moult.

    Crustacea 2008

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