Genital Definition

jĕnĭ-tl
adjective
Of reproduction or the sexual organs.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to the genitals.
American Heritage Medicine
Designating or of the third stage of infantile psychosexual development in which interest centers around the genital organs.
Webster's New World
Designating or of the adult or final stage of psychosexual development in which conflicts have been resolved, libidinal drives regulated, and character structure integrated.
Webster's New World
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noun

(rare) The genitalia.

Wiktionary

Origin of Genital

  • From Middle English, from Latin genitalis (“of or belonging to generation”), from genitus, past participle of gignere (“to beget, generate”); see genus.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Latin genitālis from genitus past participle of gignere to beget genə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Genital Sentence Examples

  • Associated with these glands are frequently to be found bundles or pairs of long and variously modified setae which are termed penial setae,to distinguish them from other setae sometimes but not always associated with rather similarglandswhich are found anteriorly to these, and often in the immediate neighbourhood of the spermathecae; the latter are spoken of as genital setae.

  • It is also seen to be connected with a more remote ganglion - the genital.

  • The male duct vd becomes fleshy and muscular near its termination at the genital pore, forming the penis p. Attached to it is a diverticulum fl, in which the spermatozoa which have descended from the ovo-testis are stored and modelled into sperm ropes or spermatophores.

  • It is therefore a haemocoel, the coelom of the developed insect being represented only by the cavities of the genital glands and their ducts.

  • The presence of rudiments of the genital ducts of both sexes in the embryo of either sex is interesting and suggestive.

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GGEGEN

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LALTAL

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