copulation

英 [ˌkɒpjuˈleɪʃn]

美 [ˌkɑːpjuˈleɪʃn]

n.  交配；交尾；连结

复数：copulations　

医学

BNC.23748 / COCA.24488

柯林斯词典

• V-RECIP 性交;交配;交尾
  If one animal or personcopulates withanother, they have sex. You can also say that two animals or people copulate.
  1. During the time she is paired to a male, the female allows no other males to copulate with her...
     雌性与雄性配对时，雌性不允许其他雄性与之交配。
  2. Whales take twenty-four hours to copulate.
     鲸交配需要24小时。

英英释义

noun

• the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman
  Synonym:sexual intercourseintercoursesex actcoituscoitionsexual congresscongresssexual relationrelationcarnal knowledge

双语例句

• Adults are active in daytime and copulation tookplace from evening to next early morning.
  成虫白天活动，黄昏时交尾，羽化多集中于凌晨。
• The nuptial gift behavior was observed and the females consume the offering of the males during copulation.
  观察到了雄虫的献礼行为，雌虫边取食边交配。
• The Animistic Belief of Taboo Seeing Animal Copulation and the Yi folk Ritual to Avoid Misfortune
  彝族民间忌见动物交配的泛灵信仰及其禳解仪式
• And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.
  人若梦遗，他必不洁净到晚上，并要用水洗全身。
• However, the hairs on or in the male terminaliae may be of importance in copulation.
  但是，尾器的感觉毛数量多、分布广，可能在完成交配行为中具有重要意义。
• Study on the Change of Reproductive Hormones in Crab-eating Macaque after Copulation in Guangxi Area
  广西地区食蟹猴配种后主要生殖激素的变化
• The copulation in mule market has become the common thing.
  骡马市上的交配也就成了情理之事。
• Studies on the reproduction of the oriental migratory locust: the physiological effects of castration and copulation
  东亚飞蝗生殖的研究：去势和交尾在生理上的效应
• Some male placoderm fossils show evidence of graspers that held the female fish during copulation.
  一些雄性盾皮鱼化石显示出在交配期间用来抓住雌鱼的紧握器的证据。
• This is the law of him that hath the issue of seed, and that is defiled by copulation.
  这是有关因淋病，或遗精沾染不洁的人。