traumatic insemination
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From traumatic + insemination, because of the traumatic injury to the female.
Noun[edit]
traumatic insemination (usually uncountable, plural traumatic inseminations)
- (biology) A method of insemination in some invertebrates, whereby the male stabs the body of the female in random locations to inject the sperm, thereby causing trauma to the female.