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

• 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
• 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 reproductive system has a complex innervation concerned in copulation and oviposition.
  生殖系统有一个同交尾和产卵有关的复杂神经系统。
• 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
• On close observation, these lovers in amorous copulation are in fact both Chi Peng.
  观众仔细观察后会发现，这些正在享受性爱的恋人们其实都是迟鹏自己。
• But copulation experience did not affect the host-locating and host-examining time.
  交配与否不影响雌蜂用于搜寻寄主和检验寄主的时间。
• In addition, an improved real-coding copulation operator was also raised.
  另外，给出了一个改进的实数编码的两点交叉算子。
• The grass grows and the horse is ruttish, how reasonable the natural is in turn. The copulation in mule market has become the common thing.
  草长马发情，这种自然界的交替是多么合乎情理。骡马市上的交配也就成了情理之事。
• So, interpopulational copulation does not mean sperm can be transferred successfully.
  所以，种间交配并不意味着能成功地进行精子传送。
• 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