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单词 genitalic
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genitalicadj.

Brit. /ˌdʒɛnᵻˈtalɪk/, /ˌdʒɛnᵻˈteɪlɪk/, U.S. /ˌdʒɛnəˈtælɪk/, /ˌdʒɛnəˈteɪlɪk/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: genital n., genitalia n., -ic suffix.
Etymology: < either genital n. or genital- (in genitalia n.) + -ic suffix.
Chiefly Zoology.
Of or relating to the genitalia. Also: designating species of insect that can be distinguished only by details of their genital morphology (now rare).
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1881 J. A. Lintner in Papilio 1 70 As the differences presented between the genitalia of this species.., as described and illustrated, are greater than those which have served to separate other of the genitalic species, it would not be proper to accept the two as identical.
1948 Land Mollusca N. Amer. II. xix. 849 Its genitalic complications had already been evolved in the ancestral stock from which Strobilopsidae and most other orthurethrous families of the present time arose.
1968 Bull. Entomol. Res. 57 608 Allowing for variation, no significant superficial or genitalic differences were found, and the two nominal species are considered to be the same.
2006 Nature 7 Dec. 691/1 It is the evolutionary relations among these earwigs that elevates a genitalic curiosity to a higher plane.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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