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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to biological reproduction.
  • adjective Of or relating to the genitals.
  • adjective Of or relating to the final stage of psychosexual development in psychoanalytic theory, beginning in puberty and during which the genitals again become the focus of gratification, and interest develops in romantic and sexual relationships. The genital stage is preceded by the latency period.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to generation; generative; reproductive; procreative: as, the genital organs.
  • Specifically Pertaining to the organs of generation.
  • noun See genitals.

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

  • adjective Pertaining to generation, or to the generative organs.
  • adjective (Anat.) a cord developed in the fetus by the union of portions of the Wolffian and Müllerian ducts and giving rise to parts of the urogenital passages in both sexes.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of, or relating to biological reproduction
  • adjective of, or relating to the genitalia
  • adjective psychoanalysis of, or relating to psychosexual development during puberty
  • noun rare the genitalia

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

  • adjective of or relating to the external sex organs

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Latin genitālis, from genitus, past participle of gignere, to beget; see genə- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English, from Latin genitalis ("of or belonging to generation"), from genitus, past participle of gignere ("to beget, generate"); see genus.

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