Amplexation

Quick meaning: Amplexation is a noun meaning (biology, dated, uncommon) The act of (forming the grip of) amplexus.

Meaning

(biology, dated, uncommon) The act of (forming the grip of) amplexus.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare) An embrace.

Example Sentences

Amplexation of 'Pelodytes punctatus' […] Nevertheless, within certain limits, the species of a genus agree in their mode of amplexation; only a too strict taxonomy cannot be applied.

[...] blood and the spirit, by mutual amplexations or inbracements of these two vessels, the vein and the arterie being conjoyned and united in one very body, first beginning in the braded body, and then after in the[…]

He remains in amplexation until the female extrudes the eggs, when he immediately sheds the sperm over them. In this way the hazards and uncertainties of distance between the germ cells of the two sexes are greatly lessened. The hylas, or tree[…]

Truth oft hath approbation, without Amplexation; beleeved, but not embrac't of many. […] And I will not say, Saint Paul meant not so; though I will not say, he did. The true Amplexation, is the due Application of the saying to our selves, as Saint Paul doth […]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include amplexion, amplection, embrasure, expansure, exhalement, amphigony.

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