procreation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pro=cre=a=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

procreation, n. [F. procréation, L, procreatio.].

 The act of begetting; generation and production of young.  South.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

procreation

abiogenesis, act of love, adultery, aphrodisia, archigenesis, ass, balling, begetting, biogenesis, birth, blastogenesis, breeding, budding, burgeoning, carnal knowledge, climax, cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, commerce, congress, connection, copula, copulation, coupling, crossbreeding, development, diddling, digenesis, dissogeny, endogamy, engenderment, epigenesis, eumerogenesis, excrescence, fornication, gemmation, generation, genesis, germination, growth, heterogenesis, histogenesis, homogenesis, inbreeding, intercourse, intimacy, isogenesis, linebreeding, lovemaking, making it with, marital relations, marriage act, mating, maturation, meat, merogenesis, metagenesis, monogenesis, multiplication, onanism, orgasm, orthogenesis, outbreeding, outgrowth, overgrowth, ovum, pangenesis, pareunia, parthenogenesis, proliferation, propagation, pullulation, relations, reproduction, screwing, sex, sex act, sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union, sleeping with, sperm, spontaneous generation, sprouting, upgrowth, vegetation, venery, xenogamy

ROGET THESAURUS

procreation

Production

N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.

Productiveness

N productiveness, fecundity, fertility, luxuriance, uberty, pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation, procreation, superfetation, milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey, second crop, aftermath, aftercrop, aftergrowth, arrish, eddish, rowen, protoplasm, fertilization, productive, prolific, teeming, teemful, fertile, fruitful, frugiferous, fruit-bearing, fecund, luxuriant, pregnant, uberous, procreant, procreative, generative, life-giving, spermatic, multiparous, omnific, propagable, parturient, profitable.