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

• The nuptial gift behavior was observed and the females consume the offering of the males during copulation.
  观察到了雄虫的献礼行为，雌虫边取食边交配。
• 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。
• The copulation in mule market has become the common thing.
  骡马市上的交配也就成了情理之事。
• Behavior ecological study on copulation and oviposition of Apis cerana cerana Fab
  中华蜜蜂交配和产卵行为生态学研究
• 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；
• 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。
• 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 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。
• It dawned on me after studying the specimen that this was the earliest evidence of vertebrates having sex by copulation – not just spawning in water, but sex that was fun, said Prof Long.
  在对样本进行研究后，我意识到，这是脊椎动物交配的最早证据&不仅仅是在水中产卵，乐趣的是性行为，朗表示。
• 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