Vir·gin n.
1. A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid.
2. A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence. [Archaic]
These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. --Rev. xiv. 4.
He his flesh hath overcome;
He was a virgin, as he said. --Gower.
3. Astron. See Virgo.
4. Zool. Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
5. Zool. A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
The Virgin, or The Blessed Virgin, the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ.
Virgin's bower Bot., a name given to several climbing plants of the genus Clematis, as Clematis Vitalba of Europe, and Clematis Virginiana of North America.
Clematis virginiana
n : common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over
other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy
white flowers [syn: virgin's bower, old man's beard,
devil's darning needle]