Definition of sex

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Sex (n.) The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female.

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Sextary :: Sextary (n.) An ancient Roman liquid and dry measure, about equal to an English pint..
Know :: Know (v. i.) To have sexual commerce with.
Concupiscent :: Concupiscent (a.) Having sexual lust; libidinous; lustful; lecherous; salacious.
Gonophore :: Gonophore (n.) A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome..
Minor :: Minor (n.) A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age..
Sexennial :: Sexennial (n.) A sexennial event.
Sporophoric :: Sporophore (n.) That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore..
Sixteenmo :: Sixteenmo (n.) See Sextodecimo.
Maid :: Maid (n.) A man who has not had sexual intercourse.
Paramours :: Paramours (adv.) By or with love, esp. the love of the sexes; -- sometimes written as two words..
Redia :: Redia (n.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix..
Decimosexto :: Decimosexto (n.) A book consisting of sheets, each of which is folded into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of book; -- usually written 16mo or 16¡..
Amphigonic :: Amphigonic (a.) Pertaining to amphigony; sexual; as, amphigonic propagation..
Parthenogenesis :: Parthenogenesis (n.) The production of seed without fertilization, believed to occur through the nonsexual formation of an embryo extraneous to the embrionic vesicle..
Budding :: Budding (n.) A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea..
Sex :: Sex (n.) The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes..
Monkflower :: Monkflower (n.) A name of certain curious orchids which bear three kinds of flowers formerly referred to three genera, but now ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus (Catasetum tridentatum, etc.)..
Sexfid :: Sexfid (a.) Alt. of Sexifi.
Girl :: Girl (n.) A young person of either sex; a child.
Worker :: Worker (n.) One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under White..
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