Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.3

00847340-n 'the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes';

English	mating ₂ ( ⊳ ) , union ₁ , sexual union ₁ , conjugation ( ⊳ ) , pairing ( ⊳ ) , coupling ( ⊳ )
Indonesian	kawin , gabungan , perikatan , persatuan
Japanese	媾合 , 掛け合せ , かけ合わせ , 種付け , 掛け合わせ , 交接 , 掛合せ , 掛合わせ , ペアリング , 交媾 , 交尾 , 交合 , 交配

Definitions

English: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
― the casual couplings of adolescents; the mating of some species occurs only in the spring
Japanese: 生殖のために男女をつがわせる行為
― 思春期の軽くできるカップル; 種によっては、春の間だけ交尾が行われる

Relations

Hyponym:	assortative_mating disassortative_mating hybridization inbreeding servicing
Hypernym:	sexual_activity
Semantic Field:	act_n

External Links

TempoWN: ◁ △ ▷ (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.004; Future: 0.000)

SentiWN: △ ▽ (+0.00 -0.00) MLSentiCon: ▲ ▽ (+0.12 -0.00)