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mating

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mating [′mād·iŋ]
(biology)
The meeting of individuals for sexual reproduction.


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And the funny thing is, though I'm night-born in everything else, I'm not when it comes to mating.
"Think you, Salensus Oll, that the wife of such as he is," she cried, "would ever dishonor his memory, were he a thousand times dead, by mating with a lesser mortal?
"Dear" and "darling" were too terribly intimate for them to achieve quickly; and, unlike most mating couples, they did not overwork the love-words.
 
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