coitus

Example Sentences

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Because of the risk involved, male tarantulas use hook-like structures on their first pair of legs to hold the female during coitus, according to Monjaraz Ruedas.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2025

But increasingly, cockroach coitus is going really, weirdly wrong, and is contributing to roach populations in some places that are more difficult to vanquish with conventional pesticides.

From New York Times • May 27, 2022

But bedbug mating only occurs once a week, so Siva-Jothy wondered whether the females only primed their immune response right before coitus, much the way dogs salivate in anticipation of food.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 22, 2011

When both partners are fertile, but coitus or conception is prevented by some structural abnormality, artificial insemination may be a simple means to parenthood.

From Time Magazine Archive

He may not even eat cheese or eggs or milk, for they, like meat, are produced per viam generationis seu coitus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various