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Definition of Precopulatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Precopulatory
Literary usage of Precopulatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Housing, Husbandry, And Welfare Of Sheep And Goats Bibliography January 85 by D'Anna Berry (1997)
"Frequencies of precopulatory behaviors (bouts of leg-kicking and anogenital ...
Frequencies of precopulatory behaviors and mounting were lower when the rams ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1896)
"... have eight precopulatory legs is not new, but up to this time the whole eight
have been supposed to belong to the first six segments. ..."
3. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1868)
"38 mm in length; the basal portion was ca. 7 mm in diameter. The female did not
move or tongue flick during the entire precopulatory sequence. ..."