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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Buggery :: Buggery (n.) Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.
Digenous :: Digenous (a.) Sexually reproductive.
Coplatry :: Coplatry (a.) Used in sexual union; as, the copulatory organs of insects..
Male :: Male (v. t.) Of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs..
Mate :: Mate (v. i.) To be or become a mate or mates, especially in sexual companionship; as, some birds mate for life; this bird will not mate with that one..
Monogenesis :: Monogenesis (n.) That form of reproduction which requires but one parent, as in reproduction by fission or in the formation of buds, etc., which drop off and form new individuals; asexual reproduction..
Male :: Male (v. t.) Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage..
Serge :: Serge (n.) A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes..
Sexton :: Sexton (n.) An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc..
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..
Modest :: Modest (a.) Observing the proprieties of the sex; not unwomanly in act or bearing; free from undue familiarity, indecency, or lewdness; decent in speech and demeanor; -- said of a woman..
Nymphomania :: Nymphomania (n.) Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease..
Queen :: Queen (n.) A male homosexual, esp. one who is effeminate or dresses in women's clothing..
Monogamous :: Monogamous (a.) Mating with but one of the opposite sex; -- said of birds and mammals.
Pupil :: Pupil (n.) A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.
Dimorphism :: Dimorphism (n.) Difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly..
Gamogenesis :: Gamogenesis (n.) The production of offspring by the union of parents of different sexes; sexual reproduction; -- the opposite of agamogenesis.
Epicene :: Epicene (a. & n.) Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.
Sextant :: Sextant (n.) The sixth part of a circle.
Radius :: Radius (n.) The movable limb of a sextant or other angular instrument.
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