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Meanings of reproducing in English

Russian
размножение
Portuguese
reprodução
Catalan
reproducció
Spanish
reproducción

The production of new individuals that contain some portion of genetic material inherited from one or more parent organisms.

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        Examples for "reproduction"
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        French law currently allows assisted reproduction for married couples with infertility problems.
        Reuters
        2
        These marine reserves increase population sizes and reproduction rates of exploited species.
        The Guardian
        3
        Every economics course ought to start not with production but with reproduction.
        The Guardian
        4
        However, medical education rarely considers such topics beyond the physiology of reproduction.
        Pubmed
        5
        Recent studies have suggested that leptin plays an important role in reproduction.
        Pubmed
        1
        Headsex for procreation was an unpleasant chore carried out for demographic duty.
        Perdido Street Station
        2
        The modern craze for small specimens makes them quite unsuitable for procreation.
        Dogs and All about Them
        3
        This was an act of procreation, even if my participation wasn't voluntary.
        The Complete Alien Omnibus
        4
        No day passes when the lady elders don't nag me about procreation.
        Edge of Infinity
        5
        Here we are only concerned with procreation as an element of marriage.
        Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 / Sex in Relation to ...
        Usage of reproducing in English
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        Capacity for assimilating the public taste and reproducing it, is the commonest.
        Diana of the Crossways — Volume 5
        2
        Something else: We may or may not be capable of reproducing ourselves.
        The Last Ship
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        But there is talk of reproducing home titles in this new land.
        A Little Girl in Old Quebec
        4
        All the world would disappear, if man lost the power of reproducing.
        The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10
        5
        A neo-Nazi in Ukraine is reproducing the document in paperback… Video, Audio
        Radio NZ
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        Cell transformation has traditionally been accomplished by harvesting and reproducing stem cells.
        Wired
        7
        Some notes from the Diary for March, 1885, are worth reproducing here:-
        The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)
        8
        Inevitably-suchis life-someorganisms do better than others at surviving and reproducing.
        Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
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        Every living plant has life-producing seed, or some method of reproducing itself.
        The Authoritative Life of General William Booth, Founder of the ...
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        To meet demand, nurseries are reproducing the trees on a massive scale.
        The Guardian
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        And the aborigines found life so unattractive that they gave up reproducing.
        Cat’s Cradle
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        Carotid injection of activated oncospheres in pigs is effective in reproducing NCC.
        Pubmed
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        However, evidence of either side reproducing last weekend's form was not immediately apparent.
        The Guardian
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        Faster reproducing individuals lead to larger groups that split more often.
        Pubmed
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        Several years ago the CCC published a guide to lifting and reproducing fingerprints.
        Wired
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        Our languages express meaning in a way your mind has trouble reproducing consistently.
        Spellwright
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        Portuguese
        reprodução
        Reproducing through the time
        Reproducing across language varieties
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