Word Meanings - GENITAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to generation, or to the generative organs. Genital cord , a cord developed in the fetus by the union of portions of the Wolffian and Müllerian ducts and giving rise to parts of the urogenital passages in both sexes.

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• WOLFFIAN
  Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff , the founder of modern embryology. Wolffian body, the mesonephros. -- Wolffian duct, the duct from the Wolffian body.
• UNIONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
• GENITALS
  The organs of generation; the sexual organs; the private parts.
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• GIVING
  1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving
• UROGENITAL
  See URINOGENITAL
• DEVELOPABLE
  Capable of being developed. J. Peile. Developable surface , a surface described by a moving right line, and such that consecutive positions of the generator intersect each other. Hence, the surface can be developed into a plane.
• GENERATIVE
  Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing. "That generative particle." Bentley.
• DEVELOP
  1. To go through a process of natural evolution or growth, by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly organized state; to advance from a simpler form of existence to one more complex either in structure or function;
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• GIVER
  One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes. It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian. Kollock.
• GENITAL
  Pertaining to generation, or to the generative organs. Genital cord , a cord developed in the fetus by the union of portions of the Wolffian and Müllerian ducts and giving rise to parts of the urogenital passages in both sexes.
• DEVELOPMENTAL
  Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. Carpenter.
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• GENERATION
  The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface
• GIVE
  1. To give a gift or gifts. 2. To yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet. 3. To become soft or moist. Bacon . 4. To move; to recede. Now back he gives, then rushes on amain. Daniel. 5. To
• UNIONISM
  1. The sentiment of attachment to a federal union, especially to the federal union of the United States. 2. The principles, or the system, of combination among workmen engaged in the same occupation or trade.
• UNIONIST
  1. One who advocates or promotes union; especially a loyal supporter of a federal union, as that of the United States. 2. A member or supporter of a trades union.
• DEVELOPER
  A reagent by the action of which the latent image upon a photographic plate, after exposure in the camera, or otherwise, is developed and visible. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, develops.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• REUNION
  1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects. 2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a
• TERGIVERSATOR
  One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
• URINOGENITAL
  Pertaining to the urinary and genital organs; genitourinary; urogenital; as, the urinogenital canal.
• RETROGENERATIVE
  Begetting young by retrocopulation.
• THANKSGIVING
  1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee
• ALMSGIVING
  The giving of alms.
• MISGIVING
  Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.
• INGENERATION
  Act of ingenerating.
• NONDEVELOPMENT
  Failure or lack of development.
• UNREGENERATION
  Unregeneracy.
• FUNGIVOROUS
  Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
• REGIVE
  To give again; to give back.
• NONUNIONIST
  One who does not belong, or refuses to belong, to a trades union.
• FORGIVER
  One who forgives. Johnson.