reproductiveness

Verschoor said that from 1997 all female students would be asked to sign an undertaking that acknowledged that reproductiveness was a personal responsibility and the university's responsibility towards students was merely of an academic nature.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

The future reproductiveness is settled at a very early period, and is distinguishable under the microscope by a sort of _margination_ of the frondlets.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

They told me that when the growing process was sufficiently advanced, they loosened the casing, and cutting a hole into the interior of each giant fruit, scooped out all its seed, thereby checking more advance, and throwing into the rind strength that would otherwise have gone to reproductiveness.

Gulliver of Mars 1905

They told me that when the growing process was sufficiently advanced, they loosened the casing, and cutting a hole into the interior of each giant fruit, scooped out all its seed, thereby checking more advance, and throwing into the rind strength that would otherwise have gone to reproductiveness.

Gulliver of Mars Edwin Lester Linden Arnold 1896

Thus there is a tendency not only to favour reproductiveness, but early reproductiveness, in the form of one prolific reproductive.

The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895

Weismaun, encystment of protoplasm, 68; length of life and somatic cells, 96; origin of death, 83; tendency to early reproductiveness, 98.

The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895

_Simple_ reflex action, or instinct, answers to the animal faculties, such as acquisitiveness, secretiveness, selfishness, reproductiveness, etc., and accomplishes two important purposes; self-preservation and the reproduction of the specie.

The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877

Miss Pontifex was old enough and wise enough to know that this is the way in which even the greatest men as a general rule begin to develop, and was more pleased with his receptiveness and reproductiveness than alarmed at the things he caught and reproduced.

The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 1868

Small canteen remarkable for its conception and decoration, representing in form the reproductiveness of water (the phallic frog), and in decoration, water its inhabitants, and a star reflection.

Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuñi, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona, in 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 511-594 James Stevenson 1864

Whatever the soup purportedly does for individual humans, its popularity could be helping to squelch the reproductiveness of an entire species.

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