mating，英语单词，主要用作名词、动词，作名词时译为“（动物等的）交配，交尾；配套；（植物等的）杂交”，作动词时译为“交配；使配对；使紧密配合（mate的现在分词）”。

柯林斯英汉双解大词典

mate /meɪt/ CET4 TEM4 ( mating, mated, mates )

1.N-COUNT Someone's wife, husband, or sexual partner can be referred to as their mate. 配偶; 性伴侣

2.N-COUNT An animal's mate is its sexual partner. 交配对象

3.N-COUNT a friend, usually of the same sex: often used between males in direct address (同性称呼语，常用于男性间)哥们; 老兄; 老弟; 朋友 [英国英语][非正式]

4.N-COUNT an associate, colleague, fellow sharer, etc 同事; 工友

5.V-RECIP When animals mate, a male and a female have sex in order to produce young. 交配

6.V-T to pair (a male and female animal) or (of animals) to pair for reproduction 使成为配偶; 使交配

7. → see also classmate, roommate, running mate

mating system 交配制度 ; 婚配制度 ; [遗] 交配系统 ; 交配体制

mating face 接触面 ; 接合面 ; 装配面 ; 数学

interrupted mating[遗] 中断杂交

mating pair 接合对 ; 立起接合对

mating parts 需配套配件 ; 配合件 ; 相配零件 ; 互配零件

mating group 交配组

mating design 交配设计

Mating Disruption 交配干扰 ; 迷向法

triparental mating 三亲本杂交