SEX
\sˈɛks], \sˈɛks], \s_ˈɛ_k_s]\
Definitions of SEX
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms (6th edition)
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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[Latin] The sum of characteristics, structures, functions, by which an animal or plant is classed as male or female.
By J.H. Kenneth
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seks, n. the distinction between male and female: the characteristics by which an animal or plant is male or female, gender: the female sex, women generally, usually with the definite article.--adj. SEX'LESS, having no sex.--n. SEX'LESSNESS.--adj. SEX'[=U]AL, pertaining to sex: distinguished or founded on the sex: relating to the distinct organs of the sexes.--v.t. SEX'[=U]ALISE, to distinguish as sexed.--ns. SEX'[=U]ALIST, one who classifies plants according to the differences of the sexes; SEX[=U]AL'ITY, state or quality of being sexual.--adv. SEX'[=U]ALLY.--SEXUAL AFFINITY, the instinctive attraction of one sex for another; SEXUAL ORGANS, the organs of generation; SEXUAL SELECTION, that province of natural selection in which sex comes into play. [Fr. sexe--L. sexus--sec[=a]re, to cut.]
By Thomas Davidson
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The physical difference between male and female in animals and vegetables: - as the Male sex, Sexus po'tior seu for'tior seu viri'lis; and the Female sex, Sexus seq'uior, S. mulie'bris, Alter Sexus, ‘The Sex.’
By Robley Dunglison
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Being male or female or hermaphrodite (what is its s.?; s. does not matter; without distinction of age or s.), whence sexless a., sexlessness n.; males or females collectively (all ranks& both ss.; the fair, gentle, softer, weaker, s., & facet. the s., women; the sterner s., men; is the fairest of her s.). [French]
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comb. forms of L sex six, in derivatives of L compds& in mod. formations: sexangle, hexagon; sexangular (ly), hexagonal (ly); sexcentenary (or-se-) a. & n., of 600, 600-year, 600th anniversary; sexdigitate, six-fingered; sexennial (ly), lasting, (occurring) once in, six years; sexfid bot., cleft in 6; sexfoil, 6-lobed figure in architectural or other decoration, also 6-leaved plant; sexillion, 6th power of a million, 1 with 36 ciphers; sexisylla bic, -able, (word) of 6 syllables; sex (i)valent chem., combining with 6 atoms of hydrogen, having 6 combining equivalents; sexpartite, divided in 6; sextuple a. & n. & v.t. & i., sixfold (amount), multiply by 6.
By Sir Augustus Henry
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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n. [Latin] The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female; the physical difference between male and female;- one of the two groups of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female;-the distinguishing peculiarity of plants, as staminate or pistillate;-womankind; females, so used by way of emphasis.
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