[みや, miya] (n) (1) palace; (2) (See 五音) tonic (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale); (3) (abbr) (See 宮刑) ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women); (n, n-suf) (4) (See 十二宮) zodiacal sign #1,487[Add to Longdo]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Castration \Cas*tra"tion\, n. [L. castratio; cf. F. castration.]
The act of castrating.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
castration
n 1: neutering a male animal by removing the testicles [syn:
{castration}, {emasculation}]
2: surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit
hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or
prostate cancer in men); "bilateral castration results in
sterilization"
3: the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work
[syn: {expurgation}, {castration}]
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