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Genital definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GEN'ITAL, a. [L. genitalis, from the root of gigno; Gr. to beget.]
Pertaining to generation or the act of begetting.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or relating to the external sex organs; "genital herpes"; "venereal disease" [syn: genital, venereal]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin genitalis, from genitus, past participle of gignere to beget — more at kin Date: 14th century 1. generative 2. of, relating to, or being a sexual organ 3. of, relating to, or characterized by the stage of psychosexual development in psychoanalytic theory during which oral and anal impulses are subordinated to adaptive interpersonal mechanisms • genitally adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. of or relating to animal reproduction. --n. (in pl.) the external reproductive organs. Etymology: OF génital or L genitalis f. gignere genit- beget

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Genital Gen"i*tal, a. [L. genitalis, fr. genere, gignere, to beget: cf. F. g['e]nital. See Gender.] Pertaining to generation, or to the generative organs. Genital cord (Anat.), a cord developed in the fetus by the union of portions of the Wolffian and M["u]llerian ducts and giving rise to parts of the urogenital passages in both sexes.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(genitals) 1. Someone's genitals are their external sexual organs. N-PLURAL 2. Genital means relating to a person's external sexual organs. Keep the genital area clean. ADJ: ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

abiogenetic, biogenetic, blastogenetic, cervical, clitoral, epigenetic, eumerogenetic, gametic, generative, genetic, genial, genitive, heterogenetic, histogenetic, homogenetic, isogenetic, merogenetic, metagenetic, monogenetic, orthogenetic, ovarian, pangenetic, parthenogenetic, penial, penile, phallic, phytogenetic, scrotal, seminal, spermatic, sporogenous, testicular, uterine, vaginal, vulval, vulvar, xenogenetic