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 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.

 The Virgin
      n : the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin
          Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics [syn:
          Mary, Virgin Mary, Blessed Virgin, Madonna]