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Definition of Genital

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the external sex organs. "Venereal disease"

Definition of Genital

1. a. Pertaining to generation, or to the generative organs.

Definition of Genital

1. Adjective. of, or relating to biological reproduction ¹

2. Adjective. of, or relating to the genitalia ¹

3. Adjective. (psychoanalysis) of, or relating to psychosexual development during puberty ¹

4. Noun. (rare) the genitalia ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Genital

1. pertaining to reproduction [adj] - See also: reproduction

Medical Definition of Genital

1. Pertaining to the genitalia. Origin: L. Genitalis = belonging to birth This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genital

Literary usage of Genital

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"genital aperture. sfg. Lung aperture. u. Anus with a pair of back- wardly migrated spinning appendages on each side of it ; compare the position of these ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"In the sixth week a tubercle, the genital eminence, is formed in front of the cloaca, and this is soon surrounded by two folds of skin, the genital ridges. ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"Toward the end of the second month the genital tubercle presents, on its lower aspect, a groove, the genital groove, which extends downward toward the ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In other groups of animals we find that the pore, and funnel or tube connected with it by which the genital products are conveyed to the exterior, ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"SCIENCE. respect to the number of anal plates and genital pores. ... Five genital plates, meeting by a considerable distance and totally excluding the ..."

6. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"I. genital Organs. Our knowledge of the development of the genital organs in ... The rudiments of the genital glands belong in all cases to the mesoderm. ..."

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