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(zoology) A form of pseudocopulation, found chiefly in amphibians and horseshoe crabs, in which a male grasps a female with his front legs as part of the mating process..
Finally, we came upon a pair of Panamanian robber frogs locked in amplexus—the amphibian version of sex.
In the middle, just below the surface, a male and a female were locked in amplexus, a coupling that can last for days as the male waits to fertilise the eggs when they are laid.
Use amplexus when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Amplexus means (zoology) A form of pseudocopulation, found chiefly in amphibians and horseshoe crabs, in which a male grasps a female with his front legs as part of the mating process..
Common synonyms include amplection//amplexion, amplexation.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Finally, we came upon a pair of Panamanian robber frogs locked in amplexus—the amphibian version of sex.
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