SEXUAL UNION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sexual union mean? 

• SEXUAL UNION (noun)
  The noun SEXUAL UNION has 1 sense:

1. the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

  Familiarity information: SEXUAL UNION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEXUAL UNION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conjugation; coupling; mating; pairing; sexual union; union

Context example:

the mating of some species occurs only in the spring

Hypernyms ("sexual union" 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 "sexual union"):

assortative mating (mating of individuals having more traits in common than likely in random mating)

disassortative mating (mating of individuals having traits more dissimilar than likely in random mating)

cross; crossbreeding; crossing; hybridisation; hybridization; hybridizing; interbreeding ((genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids)

inbreeding (the act of mating closely related individuals)

service; servicing (the act of mating by male animals)