intromittent

English

Adjective

intromittent (not comparable)

1. (biology) Conveying, sending or passing into a body.
   • 1939, Frederic Wood Jones, Life and Living, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company Ltd, page 181:

     And, in the end, there must be a way for the developed young to leave the maternal nidus, and the intromittent canal may answer this purpose or, by chance, it may not.

   • 1990, Raymond R. Forster, Norman I. Platnick, Jonathan A. Coddington, A Proposal and Review of the Spider Family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), American Museum of Natural History, page 39,

     Epigynum well developed, often with prominent paired lobes; internal female genitalia consisting of two widely separated pairs of receptacula with short intromittent ducts; […] .

   • 2019, Kate Trinajstic, Catherine Boisvert, John A. Long, Zerina Johanson, “12: Evolution of Vertebrate Reproduction”, in Zerina Johanson, Charlie Underwood, Martha Richter, editors, Evolution and Development of Fishes, Cambridge University Press, page 212:

     In Microbrachius males, the paired intromittent structures occur ventromedially behind the posterior ventral lateral plates (Long et al., 2015: Fig. 1).

2. Used for intromission.

Usage notes

The most common usage, by far, is intromittent organ.

Derived terms

• intromittent organ

Translations

conveying, sending or passing into a body

used for intromission

Latin

Verb

intrōmittent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of intrōmittō