Procreation

noun

noun ·4 syllables ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The process by which an organism produces others of its biological kind uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring wordnet
  3. 3
    The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing biological offspring uncountable, usually

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reproductionreproductionabiogenesisact of loveadulteryaphrodisia

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"Procreation does not interest me."

Etymology

From Old French procreacion, from Latin prōcreātiō (“generation”), the noun of action from prōcreāre (“to bring forth”), itself from prō- (“forth”) + creāre (“to create”). First attested in c. 1386.

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family of procreation

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