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procreation

/proh-kree-ey-shuhn/US // ˌproʊ kriˈeɪ ʃən //

孕育,创作,孕产,孕育生命

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or process of begetting offspring: The techniques of medically assisted procreation are constantly progressing.Procreation perpetuates the species—hippos give birth to hippos, not humans.

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Examples

  • Swiss law makes it difficult for same-sex couples in civil partnerships to access medically assisted methods of procreation or to adopt children.

  • It stands for the proposition that the biological basis of procreation should also be the sole organizing principle of society.

  • Other justifications, such as procreation and the raising of children, have been dismissed as bogus.

  • Since the ban, Italians have been the ones traveling for the purpose of procreation.

  • He also noted, somewhat dramatically, that “Without procreation, we would eventually disappear as a species.”

  • I wonder how much the Federalist Society invested in this cockamamie responsible procreation idea.

  • In fact, we find savages who do not know that the sex relationship has anything to do with procreation.

  • The fertilization and growth of plants are regarded as processes resembling the procreation of man.

  • The life-giving activity of the deity in connection with human procreation came to be of focal interest.

  • Since the sphere of procreation proceeds thus far, how much more must it proceed to animals of every kind, even to worms!

  • The first end of conjugial love is the procreation of offspring, and the last, or the effect, is the offspring procreated.