procreate
verb (used with object)
to beget or generate (offspring).
procreative
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a word derived from
procreate.
Example Sentences
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Many investors have come to appreciate the relative stability offered by a commodity once dismissed by the billionaire Warren Buffett as "lifeless" and "neither of much use nor procreative".
From BBC ● May 12, 2025
Davis School of Law, said courts had generally taken three approaches to contested embryos by enforcing previous agreements, balancing the procreative interests of the parties, or by trying to get them to agree.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
Several times a year, when fever or exhaustion signals that the bugs colonizing her damaged, mucus-clogged lungs are getting overly procreative, Pam heads to a clinic or hospital for IV treatment.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2022
While he was a monk – not an environment renowned for procreative possibilities – he realised he wanted to have children.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2019
We shall see later on that the procreative instinct often plays an important role in our present civilization.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
