■ adjective
1》 relating to the human or animal reproductive organs.
2》 Psychoanalysis relating to or denoting the final stage of psychosexual development reached in adulthood.
■ noun ( ~s ) a person or animal's external organs of reproduction.
Derivatives
~ly adverb
Origin
ME: from OFr., or from L. ~is , from genit- , gignere 'beget'.