reproduction
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3.9
- noun
- /ˌriːprəˈdʌkʃən/
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reproducción
- The study of human reproduction explores how babies are conceived and born.
- sexual reproduction
- survival and reproduction
- growth and reproduction
One of the striking features of human female reproduction is menstruation.
- One of the striking features of human female reproduction is menstruation.
- OK, so it's time to get nerdy about mammal reproduction and science.
- This gland is a conductor of sorts, orchestrating our sleep, mood, reproduction, and even cardiovascular health.
- Can't you have to have a male and a female in mammalian reproduction?
- Animals that keep on living after reproduction are quite uncommon.
- They have their own fitness and they depend on reproduction to be prolonged.
- This similarly the organ of sex, you know, reproduction and so on.
- So is it's yes, reproduction, it's, you know, marriage and kids and so on.
- Well, as we're going to find out, this is the way that birth and reproduction works for the Lalitha.
- They have never been observed to form spores or sexual reproduction having occurred.
Examples
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She is supposed to be focusing... on reproduction and breeding.
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One of the striking features of human female reproduction is menstruation.
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Animals that keep on living after reproduction are quite uncommon.
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Lots of animals travel great distances for reproduction.
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This semester we'll be studying animal reproduction.
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Institutions promoting reproduction and care of the young were crucial to social survival.
Academic text (2011) -
"Sex and gender have little to do with reproduction these days," replied Sartorius slowly.
Fiction book (2000) -
OK, so it's time to get nerdy about mammal reproduction and science.
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Many species have unique traits related to their reproduction that help them survive in their environments.
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Research in biology often focuses on the reproduction of organisms and their offspring development.
Synonyms
172
3.2
The process of making something like electricity or new cells
90
3.1
The process of producing new animals or plants by choosing which ones mate
26
5.6
The process when people or animals have babies
4
6.6
Plants or animals producing young so their number grows
1
8.1
The process of animals or plants making young
1
9.6
The idea that living things come from other living things
To produce children or young animals
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
3
3.4
A way plants and animals make seeds or babies when male and female cells join
- Specialized
1
4.6
A way of making new living things from one parent without sex that makes identical copies
- Specialized
Money needed to make an exact copy of a building or item after reducing for loss in value
How Reproductive
1
8.1
- Specialized
90
3.1
39
3.9
26
5.6
- Specialized
55
5.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reproduction comes from the parts re- 'again' and produce 'to make', the same root as product. So it literally means 'make again', which is why it describes how living things make new life or offspring.