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]