If one animal or person copulates with another, they have sex. You can also say that two animals or people copulate. During the time she is paired to a male, the female allows no other males to copulate with her Whales take twenty-four hours to copulate. + copulation copulations copu·la·tion acts of copulation. to have sex (past participle of copulare , from copula; COPULA)
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[ 'kä-py&-"lAt ] (intransitive verb.) 1632. Latin copulatus, past participle of copulare to join, from copula.