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

• Tests show that spermatophore is not produced by the male during copulation.
  试验表明交尾时雄虫不产生精包。
• Results Oncomelania hupensis hupensis's copulation behavior included calling and mating.
  结果钉螺的交配行为可分为觅偶和求偶2个阶段；
• 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
• 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。
• This paper points out that the explanation on condition ( 2) about Hardy& Weinberg Law mentioned in passage is not true and proves that the gene frequency will stabilize even if the copulation of population individuals is alternative.
  本文指出了文献[1]中对哈迪&温伯格定律中的条件②的解释是错误的，并证明了即使种群中个体间的交配是有选择的，其基因频率仍将保持稳定这一结果。
• Minimus was developed to22 generations by artificial copulation, meanwhile its ecological characteristics were observed too in laboratory.
  用人工交配法，在室内饲养繁殖微小按蚊至22代，同时对微小按蚊生态习性作了一些观。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。