"amplect" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: amplects [present, singular, third-person], amplecting [participle, present], amplected [participle, past], amplected [past]
Etymology: From Latin amplector. Etymology templates: {{m|la|amplector}} amplector Head templates: {{en-verb}} amplect (third-person singular simple present amplects, present participle amplecting, simple past and past participle amplected)
  1. (archaic) To embrace. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-amplect-en-verb-jLEiU0Fu
  2. (biology, rare) To grasp (the mating partner) with front legs, so as to engage in amplexus. Tags: rare Categories (topical): Biology
    Sense id: en-amplect-en-verb-jd7zzI-C Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 88 Topics: biology, natural-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: amplection

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory, page 284",
          "text": "It is a junceous and gramineous Plant, whoſe ſmall, dry, hard and nodous root emits hard, ſtraggling, round, full, not concave, and clear reeds, gracile towards the top, whoſe rigid, mucronated, and pale leaves of half a palms length, amplect its gramineous ſurcles.",
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