copulant
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One engaged in sexual union.
noun
A sign that represents the joining or unity of other signs.
adj
Example Sentences
- "Those which produce copulable copulants in one individual are designated as monoecious, while those in which copulable copulants must come from different individuals are considered dioecious."
- "Concerning the copulation positions of Turbellaria in general, Hyman (1951a:127) stated, "Usually the copulants face more or less away from each other with the genital regions pressed together and often elevated, the rest of the body attached to the subtratum."
- "In some turbellarians and monogenetic trematodes, the sperm are first aggregated into spermatophores which are discharged into the fellow copulant (Hyman, 1951)."
- "It is well known from chemistry that a fatty or oily element will not of itself unite with a watery, but must be united by means of saline copulants."
- "The copulants are likewise indispensable and have the property of being Continuant."
- "Since the classes are yielded by a static typology and not a dynamic process such as semiosis, it might be wiser to conceive the relation between subjects in terms of compatibility rather than state categorically that collectives determine copulants, for example: collectives are not only with the copulant, but also with the designative and descriptive facets of signs.."
Etymology
From Latin cōpulāns.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: cōpulāns