• Mating

    Full definition of mating

    Adjective

    mating

    1. Fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.

    Noun

    mating

    (plural matings)
    1. (zoology) Pairing of organisms for copulation.
      • 1981, Henry Foster, The Mouse in Biomedical Research (page 96)The progeny of backcrosses and intercrosses will form some incrosses and some matings of other types.
      • 2013, William E. Conner, An Acoustic Arms Race, Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.

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    Verb

    mating
    1. Present participle of mate

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