Words and phrases that have a meaning related to mating: (159 results)
Often used in the same context:
copulation, nesting, rutting, egg laying, estrous, estrus, oestrus, molting, oviducts, unmated, estrous cycle, breeding, foraging, manakin, moulting, eyespots, musth, oviposition, courtship, fru, asexual reproduction, nestlings, bowerbirds, woodcocks, mandrills, cuckoos, zebra finch, mantids, phoebes, diapause, anting, offspring, dimorphic, poult, calving, vocalisation, pheromones, cowbird, females, hermaphrodites, phalaropes, linnets, roosting, intraspecific, katydids, polyandrous, coitus, ovipositor, photoperiod, toms, redshank, dimorphism, swordtails, evolutionarily, denning, avians, fertilization, parturition, narwhals, lyrebird, catbirds, polygynous, prairie vole, ovulation, meadow vole, nightjars, killdeer, introgression, pupation, junco, vocalizations, goshawks, subadult, hyperphagia, amorous, melanistic, hatchling, bugling, ibises, migratory, precocial, springtails, siskin, passerines, spotted sandpiper, chicks, spermatogenesis, gyrfalcon, pollination, wolf spider, wagtails, sifaka, toadfish, cicada killer, tiger moth, chaffinches, larval, fledglings, redstarts, pelage, pipefish, hornbills, matings, pairing, fertilisation, instantiation, pairings, selection, spawning, choice, contact, application, i.e., impregnation, inbreeding, placement, commutation, enumeration, randomization, stimulation, response, taking, acquisition, cycling, gathering, monomorphic, radiosensitive, solving, activation, bonding, clonal, mendelian, substitution, target, welldefined
More specific:
assortative mating, cross, crossbreeding, crossing, disassortative mating, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding, service, servicing
Appears in the definition of:
assortative mating, disassortative mating, eugenics, inbreeding, service, servicing
More general:
sex, sexual activity, sex activity
Synonyms:
Also try:conjugation, coupling, sexual union, union
— Nouns for mating: population, type, behavior, time, season, isolation, system, factor, populations, behaviour, period, more...
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