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    PROCREATION

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspringplay

    Synonyms:

    breeding; facts of life; procreation; reproduction

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    Hypernyms ("procreation" is a kind of...):

    sex; sex activity; sexual activity; sexual practice (activities associated with sexual intercourse)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "procreation"):

    crossbreeding; interbreeding; miscegenation (reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons))

    generation; multiplication; propagation (the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production)

    Derivation:

    procreate (have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant)

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