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virgin
1. A female who has never experienced sexual intercourse as normally understood; medicolegally, perforation of the hymen need not have occurred for loss of virginity.
2. A person of either sex who has not experienced sexual intercourse.
3. Ecclesiastical teaching: an unmarried or chaste maiden or woman, distinguished for piety or steadfastness in religion, and regarded as having a special place among the members of the Christian church because of these merits.
4. The Virgin Mary, the mother of Christ. Also, an image or picture representing her.
5. A virgin widow, a widow who has been deprived of her husband before the sexual consummation of the marriage.
6. Uncontaminated; fresh; new and unused.
7. A female insect producing fertile eggs by parthenogenesis.
8. A female animal that has not copulated.
9. A female bee, wasp, or other insect that produces fertile eggs without copulating.
10. Being in a pure or natural state; unsullied; for example "virgin snow".
11. Unused, uncultivated, or unexplored; such as, virgin territory.
12. Existing in native or raw form; not processed or refined.

Virgin comes from Latin Virgo, maiden, virgin. We still use Virgo, the Virgin, as the name of a constellation and the sixth sign of the Zodiac, often represented as a young woman with flowing hair. The girl's name Virginia, of course, refers to the Virgin, Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ. The English colony of Virginia was named during the reign of "The Virgin Queen", Elizabeth I, who ruled England from 1558-1608.

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virgin biomass
Living vegetation that has the potential for use as energy, as opposed to processed or waste materials.
Virgin Birth
The Christian doctrine that Jesus Christ was born as the Son of God rather than of a human father and that his mother, Mother, was a virgin.
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