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virgin birth

virgin birth noun: a birth (or vegetal reproduction) after spontaneous, unfertilized gamete-development in a virginal mother, parthenogenesis.

Noun (1)

virgin birth (countable and uncountable, plural virgin births)

  1. A birth (or vegetal reproduction) after spontaneous, unfertilized gamete-development in a virginal mother, parthenogenesis.
  2. (often capitalized and used absolutely: the Virgin Birth) The miraculous birth of Christ from the Virgin Mary.
    1. Any similar birth of a deity.
      • At the moment then when Sirius, the star from the East, by coming to the Meridian at midnight signalled the Sun's new birth, the Virgin was seen just rising on the Eastern sky - the horizon line passing through her centre. And many people think that this astronomical fact is the explanation of the...1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 31
  3. Childbirth in which the offspring is said to have been conceived without sexual intercourse.
    • Many religions and traditions have myths about a virgin birth.
    • Oh, you never let the cat out? Then I suppose those kittens were a virgin birth.
  4. Childbirth in which the mother conceived the child through artificial insemination.

Noun (2) capitalized: Virgin Birth

Virgin Birth

  1. Alternative letter-case form of virgin birth.

Noun (3) capitalized: Virgin birth

Virgin birth

  1. Alternative letter-case form of virgin birth.

Forms of virgin birth

pluralvirgin births
alternative formVirgin Birth
alternative formVirgin birth

Origin of virgin birth

From virgin + birth.

Questions about virgin birth

What does virgin birth mean?
Virgin birth means a birth (or vegetal reproduction) after spontaneous, unfertilized gamete-development in a virginal mother, parthenogenesis.
What part of speech is virgin birth?
Virgin birth is a noun.
What is the plural of virgin birth?
The plural of virgin birth is virgin births.

Words near virgin birth in the dictionary

  1. Virgilianism
  2. Virgilism
  3. virgilite
  4. virgils
  5. virgin
  6. virgin birth
  7. virgin births
  8. Virgin Caesar
  9. Virgin Caesars
  10. Virgin chub
  11. Virgin chubs

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