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mating
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Mating (1991) is a novel by American author Norman Rush . It is a first-person narrative by an unnamed American anthropology graduate student in Botswana around 1980. It focuses on her relationship with Nelson Denoon, a controversial American anthropologist ...
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n. the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn: coupling , pairing , conjugation , union , sexual union ]
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Fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket. n. (context zoology English) pairing of organisms for copulation. v (present participle of mate English)
Usage examples of mating.
The discussion on the mating habits of bestiary animals had not progressed as far as it had the last time she had brought up the subject with a man.
I ever tell you how interested the scribes who wrote the bestiaries were in the, uh, mating habits of the various animals?
He turned to bluster, not finding it easy to put into words his doubts about such a mating.
Breed male did not develop semen compatible to breeding without Mating.
Briefly, Brok considered explaining this complexity of Kaeradi mating to Tia, but she seemed beyond conversation.
Oga was proud of her new son, and Broud even more proud that his mate had given birth to a son so soon after their mating.
But if young people, before picking out their life partners, are thoroughly imbued with the idea that such qualities as energy, longevity, a sound constitution, public and private worth, are primarily due to heredity, and if they are taught to realize the fact that one marries not an individual but a family, the eugenist believes that better matings will be made, sometimes realized, sometimes insensibly.
Nagamar are rather good with the poisons also, and Mallat has a stable of guards with noses so sharp they could track a moth on its mating flight.
And if one of them was in musth, and one of us in oestrus, there would be a mating.
Mating or not, the ancient codes of command overweigh the more modern ones of connection: I cannot, in the new position that I have assumed, show any softness.
The Poles and Czechs and most of the French had been persecuted, prevented from mating and procreating, and finally even sterilized, until their stock had been completely destroyed.
He dipped into learned works on the mating habits of the bower bird, the decoction of ethers and esters and imitation Irish whiskey, the electronic marvels of the Space Age, proctology made easy, hypnotism, herpetology, and the magical and therapeutic properties of the ancient Chinese pharmacopoeia.
Song of Reinflated, of fallen voices, rising, singing again, ofEvercalm, of food-full skies in place of no mating, no birthing, no bagburst, strifeless and ev-ersong perfect.
Song of Reinflated, of fallen voices, rising, singing again, of Evercalm, of food-full skies in place of no mating, no birthing, no bagburst, strifeless and eversong perfect.
He was amused to note that Shouter was appalled at the notion of adults mating with each other, and of men having an equal voice with women in the making of the laws.