Definition of sex

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Sex (n.) The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes..

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Backstaff :: Backstaff (n.) An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed..
Hastings Sands :: Hastings sands () The lower group of the Wealden formation; -- so called from its development around Hastings, in Sussex, England..
Necrophore :: Necrophore (n.) Any one of numerous species of beetles of the genus Necrophorus and allied genera; -- called also burying beetle, carrion beetle, sexton beetle..
Cenogamy :: Cenogamy (n.) The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism..
Citizen :: Citizen (n.) A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it..
Serge :: Serge (n.) A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes..
Buggery :: Buggery (n.) Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.
Rape :: Rape (n.) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n..
Sexennial :: Sexennial (n.) A sexennial event.
Hemigamous :: Hemigamous (a.) Having one of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female; -- said of grasses..
Prothallus :: Prothallus (n.) The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the oophoric generation of ferns, etc..
Nymphomania :: Nymphomania (n.) Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease..
Amphigonic :: Amphigonic (a.) Pertaining to amphigony; sexual; as, amphigonic propagation..
Heterogamy :: Heterogamy (n.) That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate; -- in distinction from metagenesis, where sexual and asexual generations alternate..
Feminine :: Feminine (a.) Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate..
Femininity :: Femininity (n.) The quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness.
Sex :: Sex (n.) One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female.
Bissextile :: Bissextile (a.) Pertaining to leap year.
Female :: Female (a.) Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness..
Sexennial :: Sexennial (a.) Lasting six years, or happening once in six years..
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