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virgin birth

  1. Christian Theol. the doctrine that Jesus was born to Mary without violating her virginity and that she was his only human parent
  2. Zool. parthenogenesis

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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