amplexation

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An embrace.

    废旧 罕用

    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 […]

  2. 2.

    The act of (forming the grip of) amplexus.

    过时 生物

    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.

词源

From Latin amplexāt-, past participial stem of amplexor (“to embrace”), + -ion.

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