Definition of sex

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Sex (n.) One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female.

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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..
Palpus :: Palpus (n.) A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palp. See Illust. of Arthrogastra and Orthoptera..
Asexually :: Asexually (adv.) In an asexual manner; without sexual agency.
Queen :: Queen (n.) A male homosexual, esp. one who is effeminate or dresses in women's clothing..
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..
Forestaff :: Forestaff (n.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff..
Gonochorism :: Gonochorism (n.) In ontogony, differentiation of male and female individuals from embryos having the same rudimentary sexual organs..
Sexdigitism :: Sexdigitism (n.) The state of having six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot..
Male :: Male (v. t.) Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage..
Sext :: Sext (n.) The sixth book of the decretals, added by Pope Boniface VIII..
Unisexual :: Unisexual (a.) Having one sex only, as plants which have the male and female flowers on separate individuals, or animals in which the sexes are in separate individuals; di/cious; -- distinguished from bisexual, or hermaphrodite. See Di/cious..
Metemptosis :: Metemptosis (n.) The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years..
Catkin :: Catkin (n.) An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. See Illust. of Ament..
Sexual :: Sexual (a.) Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual intercourse, connection, or commerce; sexual desire; sexual diseases; sexual generation..
Sarong :: Sarong (n.) A sort of petticoat worn by both sexes in Java and the Malay Archipelago.
Sexennially :: Sexennially (adv.) Once in six years.
Atokous :: Atokous (a.) Producing only asexual individuals, as the eggs of certain annelids..
Amorousness :: Amorousness (n.) The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness..
Zoogamy :: Zoogamy (n.) The sexual reproduction of animals.
Child :: Child (n.) A young person of either sex. esp. one between infancy and youth; hence, one who exhibits the characteristics of a very young person, as innocence, obedience, trustfulness, limited understanding, etc..
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