genital

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: gen=i=tal

CIDE DICTIONARY

genital, a. [L. genitalis, fr. genere, gignere, to beget: cf. F. génital. See Gender.].

 Pertaining to generation, or to the generative organs; as, genital herpes.  [1913 Webster]

Genital cord (Anat.), a cord developed in the fetus by the union of portions of the Wolffian and MÜllerian ducts and giving rise to parts of the urogenital passages in both sexes.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

genital, adj. & n.
--adj. of or relating to animal reproduction.
--n. (in pl.) the external reproductive organs.

Etymology

OF g{eacute}nital or L genitalis f. gignere genit- beget

THESAURUS

genital

abiogenetic, biogenetic, blastogenetic, cervical, clitoral, epigenetic, eumerogenetic, gametic, generative, genetic, genial, genitive, heterogenetic, histogenetic, homogenetic, isogenetic, merogenetic, metagenetic, monogenetic, orthogenetic, ovarian, pangenetic, parthenogenetic, penial, penile, phallic, phytogenetic, scrotal, seminal, spermatic, sporogenous, testicular, uterine, vaginal, vulval, vulvar, xenogenetic

ROGET THESAURUS

genital

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.