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Definition: Genital |
GenitalAdjective1. Of or relating to the external sex organs; "genital herpes; "venereal disease". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "genital" was first used: sometime in the mid-14th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Pertaining to the genitalia. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: GenitalSynonym: venereal (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Production | Adjective: produced, producing; Verb: productive of; prolific; creative; formative, genetic, genial, genital; pregnant; enceinte, big with, fraught with; in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of; puerperal, puerperous. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Movie/TV Titles | Genital Hospital (1987) | |
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 | Rhabditiform larva of Strongyloides. Genital primordium is visible. Parasite.Credit: CDC. |  | The differential diagnosis proved to be chancroid, caused by Haemophilus ducreyi, and not syphilis. Chancroid can cause genital ulcers and/or inguinal buboes in the groin area.Credit: CDC. |
 | Women who acquire genital herpes during pregnancy can transmit the virus to their babies. Untreated Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) infections in newborns can result in mental retardation and death.Credit: CDC. |  | Enterococcus (streptococcus) faecalis is a normal inhabitant of intestinal tract, and female genital tract, and is occasionally associated with urinary tract infection, bacteremia and bacterial endocarditis.Credit: CDC. |
 | N. gonorrhoeae, a gram-negative diplococcus, is the causative agent for Gonorrhea. These bacteria can infect the genital tract, the mouth, and the rectum.Credit: CDC. |  | H. ducreyi is the primary cause for a condition know as "Human Genital Ulcer Disease" or "Chancroid", especially in developing countries. The transmission of this bacterium and HIV has been epidemiologically linked.Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Other people get visible genital warts. (references) | |
Do not have sex with anyone who has genital sores. (references) | ||
Cleanse the genital area before sexual intercourse. (references) | ||
Children | Canada | Changes to the law in 1997 strengthened tools to combat child prostitution and prohibited female genital mutilation, which is condemned widely by international health experts as damaging to both physical and psychological health. (references) |
Discrimination | Liberia | There are no laws against gender discrimination, ethnic discrimination, or female genital mutilation (FGM). Differences involving ethnic groups, notably the Krahn and Mandingo ethnic groups, continued to contribute to serious political violence and abuses. (references) |
Economic History | Nigeria | Other human rights problems included infringements on freedom of speech, press, assembly, association, and travel; violence and discrimination against women; and female genital mutilation. (references) |
Human Rights | Kenya | Common methods of torture practiced by police included hanging persons upside down for long periods, genital mutilation, electric shocks, and deprivation of air by submersion of the head in water. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | Prostitution is a growing problem, and female genital mutilation (FGM) is widespread. (references) |
Tanzania | Violence and discrimination against women and female genital mutilation (FGM) remained serious problems. (references) | |
Women | Benin | Female genital mutilation (FGM) is condemned widely by international health experts as damaging to both physical and psychological health. (references) |
Ghana | In particular female genital mutilation (FGM), which is condemned widely by international health experts as damaging to both physical and psychological health, is a serious problem. (references) | |
Ethiopia | The majority of girls undergo some form of female genital mutilation (FGM), which is condemned widely by international health experts as damaging to both physical and psychological health. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Genital" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.06% of the time. "Genital" is used about 212 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.06% | 210 | 20,939 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.94% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 212 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "genital": female genital organ ♦ Genital cord ♦ genital herpes ♦ genital organ ♦ genital organs ♦ genital personality ♦ genital phase ♦ genital stage ♦ genital system ♦ genital wart ♦ male genital organ ♦ Urologic and Male Genital Diseases. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "genital": genital-shaving, genital-stirring. | |
Ending with "genital": anal-genital, ano-genital, mouth-to-genital, non-genital, oculo-genital, oral-genital, oro-genital, pre-genital, psycho-genital, uro-genital. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
genital wart | 4,388 |
genital herpes | 2,522 |
genital wart picture | 1,075 |
genital piercing | 674 |
genital | 460 |
genital herpes symptom | 196 |
genital wart symptom | 121 |
genital tattoo | 115 |
genital hair removal | 87 |
genital mutilation | 81 |
genital shaving | 71 |
genital worts | 70 |
genital massage | 67 |
genital herpes pic | 65 |
genital herpes treatment | 61 |
genital wart information | 44 |
genital rash | 43 |
genital pimples | 40 |
genital wart image | 40 |
bump genital | 38 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "genital"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gjenital, pjellor (fat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, loamy, mellow, pinguid, prolific, rich). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تناسلي (reproductive, sexual, social, venereal), خاص بالأعضاء التناسلية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | генитален, полов (carnal, copulative, sensual, sex, sexual, venereal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "殖. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | genitální. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | genital. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | seksueel (generative, sexual), geslachts- (venereal), genitaal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | genera. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | genitaalinen, sukupuolielin-, lisääntymis-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | génital. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | genital, Geschlechtsteil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γεννητικός (sexual). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | של איברי "מין. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nemzõ (generative, genetic, genetical, progenitive, reproductive), nemi (carnal, copulatory, generic, sexual, some, venereal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kemaluan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | genitale (genitalia, genitals). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 性器 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せいき (animation, century, Christian era, consciousness, era, essence, established, formal, happen, legal, legitimate, life, life energy, occurrence, prosperous period, regular, sanity, soberness, spirit, take place, true character, true heart, true spirit, verve, vigor, vitality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 생식기. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | comyssagh (copulatory, offensive, promiscuous, slighting, venereal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enitalgay genital (genitalia). (various references) genital, organe genitale (private). (various references) половой (sexual). (various references) genitalni. (various references) genital. (various references) genital, fortplantnings- (generative). (various references) jenital, üreme organlarıyla ilgili. (various references) статевий (oestrous, reproductive, sexual, venereal), дітородний (copulative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | genitalis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "genital": genitalia, genitalic, genitally, genitals. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "genital": congenital, nongenital, pregenital, urinogenital, urogenital. (additional references) | |
Words containing "genital": congenitally. (additional references) | |
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"Genital" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enatal, Geitel, genetle, genical, genichi, genitas, genitle, Geniza, genizah, Genstat, genta, gental, gentia, geoidal, Glenigan, negidal, Renitelo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "genital" (pronounced je"nutul) |
| 7 | j e" n u t u l | congenital. |
| 4 | -u t u l | capital, Capitol, digital, extramarital, marital, nonvolatile, occipital, orbital, parietal, pivotal, premarital, skeletal, societal, vegetal, versatile, volatile. |
| 3 | -t u l | accidental, acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, Cantle, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, coincidental, committal, compartmental, consonantal, continental, crustal, crystal, dental, detrimental, developmental, disgruntle, dismantle, distal, ductile, elemental, embattle, entitle, environmental, experimental, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, frontal, fundamental, futile, gentle, glottal, governmental, horizontal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, incidental, incremental, infantile, infertile, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, lentil, lintel, little, mantel, mantle, mental, metal, mettle, monumental, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nongovernmental, occidental, oriental, ornamental, parental, pedestal, periodontal, petal, Pistil, pistol, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, prefrontal, prenatal, projectile, quintal, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, regimental, rental, resettle, scuttle, sentimental, settle, shuttle, skittle, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, supplemental, tactile, tattle, temperamental, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transcendental, transcontinental, transmittal, turtle, unsentimental, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vestal, vital, vittle, Whittle, Wintle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: atingle, elating, gelatin. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-t" | |
-1 letter: aiglet, eating, entail, gelant, gelati, genial, gentil, ingate, ligate, linage, tangle, tenail, tineal, tingle. | |
-2 letters: agent, agile, aglet, algin, alien, align, aline, angel, angle, anile, elain, elint, entia, giant, glean, glint, ingle, inlet, laten, leant, legit, liane, liang, ligan, linga, telia, tenia, tinea, tinge. | |
-3 letters: agin, alit, anil, ante, anti, egal, elan, etna, gaen, gain, gait, gale, gane, gate, gelt, gent, geta, gien, gilt, glen, glia, gnat, ilea, lain, lane, lang, late, lati, lean, lent, lien, line, ling, lint, lite, nail, neat, nite, tael, tail, tain, tale, tali, tang, teal, tela, tile, tine, ting. | |
-4 letters: age, ail, ain, ait, ale, alt, ane, ani, ant, ate, eat, eng, eta, gae, gal, gan, gat, gel, gen, get, gie, gin, git, lag, lat, lea, leg, lei, let, lie, lin, lit, nae, nag, net, nil, nit, tae, tag, tan, tea, teg, tel, ten, tie, til, tin. | |
-5 letters: ae, ag, ai, al, an, at, el, en, et, in, it, la, li, na, ne, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-t" | |
+1 letter: agential, alerting, alginate, altering, atheling, bleating, cleating, delating, exalting, galenite, gantline, gelatine, gelating, gelatins, gelation, genitals, gnatlike, integral, latening, legatine, legating, legation, ligament, metaling, pleating, relating, stealing, tangible, tanglier, teazling, tegminal, triangle, valeting. | |
+2 letters: alginates, alignment, allegiant, analgetic, anglesite, antiglare, athelings, chelating, cingulate, clientage, deflating, desalting, detailing, earthling, eglantine, elevating, emulating, entailing, faltering, fellating, gainliest, galantine, galenites, galleting, gangliest, gantlines, gelatines, gelations, genetical, geniality, genitalia, genitalic, genitally, genitival, giantlike, glutamine, gnarliest, granulite, haltering, ignitable, inelegant, integrals, jangliest, lamenting, lathering, legations, levanting, ligaments, metalling, paltering, reflating, replating, reslating, retailing, slangiest, stealings, tableting, tangibles, tangliest, tasseling, teaseling, teasingly, teazeling, trameling, traveling, treadling, triangles, vigilante. | |
+3 letters: alienating, alightment, alignments, alimenting, allegation, analgetics, anglesites, antilogies, antiplague, blanketing, blathering, blattering, clattering, clientages, congenital, corelating, datelining, defaulting, delegating, delegation, depilating, desolating, earthlings, eglantines, elongating, elongation, eluviating, embattling, entangling, escalating, ethylating, etiolating, evaluating, evangelist, exactingly, explanting, flattening, flattering, gadolinite, galantines, galivanted, gantleting, gelatinize, gelatinous, generalist, generality, geniculate, glauconite, gleization, glutamines, granulites, hatcheling, intaglioed, intangible, integrable, integrally, invigilate, lacerating, lactogenic, lateraling, laterizing, laureating, leafleting, leathering, levigating, levigation, levitating, liberating, lightplane, martingale, metalising, metalizing, multirange, negational, negatively, negotiable, nongenital, nucleating, outleaping, peculating, plastering, plateauing, pregenital, realtering, refloating, regelating, regimental, regulating, regulation, relegating, relegation, relocating, replanting, resaluting, retackling, retailings, signalment, slathering, spangliest, starveling, tabletting, tangential, tasselling, teaselling, teazelling, theologian, toenailing, tolerating, trailering, tramelling, trammeling, travelling, trigeminal, ulcerating, urogenital, vigilantes. | |
+4 letters: acceptingly, acetylating, affectingly, agglutinate, alightments, allegations, alleviating, alloantigen, alphabeting, altercating, alternating, amblygonite, anthologies, anthologize, antiplagues, arrestingly, banteringly, benignantly, candlelight, cartelising, cartelizing, celebrating, centrifugal, congelation, correlating, deadlifting, decollating, defalcating, defoliating, delegations, delineating, detasseling, devaluating, disentangle, dovetailing, egalitarian, ejaculating, elaborating, eliminating, elongations, elucidating, elutriating, enigmatical, enthralling, enucleating, evangelists, everlasting, exculpating, exfoliating, explicating, facelifting, falteringly, farthingale, gadolinites, gallantries, gallivanted, gauntleting, geanticline, gelatinized, gelatinizes, genealogist, generalists, genetically, genialities, geniculated, genitivally, genotypical, gestational, gesticulant, ghastliness, glauconites, gleizations, glutaminase, glutathione, glycerinate, goaltending, granitelike, hatchelling, inelegantly, intangibles, integrality, interlacing, interlaying, invigilated, invigilates, langbeinite, langoustine, lastingness, lateralling, leafletting, legislating, legislation, levigations, libertinage, ligamentous, lightplanes, linecasting, maledicting, malignities, maltreating, martingales, meliorating, metallizing, methylating, misaltering, misrelating, multiagency, nightingale, nightwalker, nonintegral, outbleating, outlearning, oversalting, overtalking, palletising, palletizing, pedestaling, percolating, plaistering, plantigrade, plasterings, platemaking, praelecting, preplanting, realignment, reallotting, regimentals, regionalist, regulations, reinflating, relegations, reluctating, replicating, retailoring, retaliating, revaluating, signalments, speculating, splattering, stalemating, starvelings, steelmaking, talebearing, teetotaling, telecasting, theologians, trailerings, trammelling, triangulate, trigeminals, unfaltering, ungainliest, ventilating. | |
+5 letters: accelerating, adulterating, agglutinable, agglutinated, agglutinates, agglutinogen, alliterating, alloantigens, almightiness, amblygonites, ameliorating, angelologist, angularities, anthologized, anthologizer, anthologizes, antireligion, appetizingly, astringently, bestializing, billingsgate, candlelights, cartwheeling, caterwauling, centralising, centralizing, centrifugals, cladogenetic, clatteringly, congelations, congeniality, congenitally, conglutinate, debilitating, decelerating, deescalating, deflagrating, deflagration, deglaciation, delaminating, deliberating, demodulating, depopulating, deregulating, deregulation, desalinating, desolatingly, detasselling, devitalizing, disentailing, disentangled, disentangles, earsplitting, edulcorating, egalitarians, elucubrating, emasculating, enchantingly, entreatingly, establishing, eternalizing, ethnological, evangelistic, everlastings, exhilarating, farthingales, felicitating, flagellating, flagellation, flatteringly, forestalling, ganglionated, geanticlines, gelatinizing, gelatinously, genealogists, generalities, generational, geobotanical, geotechnical, glutaminases, glutathiones, glycerinated, glycerinates, goaltendings, halogenating, halogenation, hearteningly, hesitatingly, interglacial, interlapping, interlarding, interleaving, interplaying, intertillage, intervillage, langbeinites, langoustines, languishment, laryngitides, lateralizing, legalization, legislations, legitimating, legitimation, libertinages, linecastings, literalizing, livetrapping, magnetically, magnetizable, magniloquent, metabolizing, metalworking, mineralogist, misalignment, multimegaton, nauseatingly, nematologies, nematologist, neutralising, neutralizing, nightingales, nightwalkers, nonalignment, obliterating, oceanologist, organoleptic, overplanting, palingenetic, pedestalling, plantigrades, platemakings, preallotting, pregnability, premalignant, realignments, reallocating, reescalating, reevaluating, regionalists, reimplanting, reinstalling, relativizing, renegotiable, replastering, repopulating, reregulating, reregulation, reticulating, revalidating, revictualing, revitalising, revitalizing, scatteringly, shatteringly, slaughtering, staggeringly, steamrolling, steelmakings, stonewalling, streamlining, stringhalted, tabernacling, talebearings, tangentially, tangibleness, teetotalling, telegramming, telegraphing, tessellating, thermalizing, triangulated, triangulates, ultraheating, unapologetic, unflattering, unnegotiable, urinogenital, vegetational, vesiculating, waterfowling, waterlogging. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 6E 69 74 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. . -. .. - .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01101110 01101001 01110100 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e n i t a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 006E 0069 0074 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41718075866778 |
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