PROCREATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does procreate mean? 

• PROCREATE (verb)
  The verb PROCREATE has 1 sense:

1. have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant

  Familiarity information: PROCREATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROCREATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they procreate    ... he / she / it procreates   
Past simple: procreated   
Past participle: procreated   
-ing form: procreating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

multiply; procreate; reproduce

Context example:

These bacteria reproduce

Hypernyms (to "procreate" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "procreate"):

propagate (multiply sexually or asexually)

fructify; set (bear fruit)

breed; multiply (have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms))

brood; cover; hatch; incubate (sit on (eggs))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

procreation (the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring)

procreative (producing new life or offspring)