procreative
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While he was a monk – not an environment renowned for procreative possibilities – he realised he wanted to have children.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2019
Otherwise, Eufinger wrote, “no certainty can ever be obtained as to the effective functioning of the procreative organs.”
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2019
Studies of the procreative dance are considered vital for helping save beleaguered coral reefs around the globe, including the Great Barrier Reef off Australia.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2016
Rather than telling women to “avoid pregnancy” in the manner of avoiding a pothole, why are none of these assorted agencies telling men to stop having procreative sex until we know more about Zika?
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2016
The idea of pursuing a course of action whose sole motivation was the procreative urge, and simultaneously to decide by an act of will to refuse to procreate....
From Exile from Space by Judith Merril
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