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anticopulatory

anticopulatory adjective: preventing or warding off copulation.

Adjective

anticopulatory (not comparable)

  1. Preventing or warding off copulation.
    • anticopulatory screeches in monkeys

Origin of anticopulatory

From anti- + copulatory.

Questions about anticopulatory

What does anticopulatory mean?
Anticopulatory means preventing or warding off copulation.
What part of speech is anticopulatory?
Anticopulatory is an adjective.

Words near anticopulatory in the dictionary

  1. anticonvulsives
  2. anticooperative
  3. anticooperatively
  4. anticooperativity
  5. anticop
  6. anticopulatory
  7. anticopying
  8. anticopyright
  9. anticor
  10. anticore
  11. anticorona

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