Definitions
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 duringpuberty - 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
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Examples
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Father Ford said that the sperm starts down the brain, it goes into what he called the genital sac, and then it starts tempting.
Manchild in the Promised Land Claude Brown 1965
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And subsequently we could identify another one – that was HPV11, which was also in genital warts and laryngeal papillomatosis.
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By the early 1980s they found novel viruses in genital warts.
The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Speed Read 2008
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The computer only registered a spike in genital temperatures while subjects watched pornography, and not the other films.
Women Become Sexually Aroused as Quickly as Men | Impact Lab 2006
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It is sometimes called the genital wart virus as some types of HPV cause genital warts.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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It is sometimes called the genital wart virus as some types of HPV cause genital warts.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The prospect of vibrators and lubricants can seem surreal in a society in which a recent government report found that at least 50% of girls between ages 10 and 18 have undergone genital excision, a procedure that some refer to as genital circumcision, in which part or all of the clitoris is removed.
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Female genital surgery, or female circumcision (otherwise known as genital mutilation), was normative among Beta Israel women (Grisaru et al. 1997).
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See Announcements for an account of the problems we had in 2000 with a gender dysphoria/transsexual organisation trying to interfere in protocols for 'gender reinforcement' surgery in intersexed infants with so-called genital ambiguity.
Transsexual Causation, the American Psychiatric Association, and Interpol Zoe Brain 2008
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The tide is turning against female circumcision - aka genital mutilation - in Egypt by on
09/19/2007 2007
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