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noun

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.

One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female.

(Bot.)

(a)

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

(b)

One of the groups founded on this distinction.

The sex, the female sex; women, in general.

prefix

Sex- pref. A combining form meaning six; as, sexdigitism; sexennial.

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Etymology of 'Sex'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sex" Quotes from Famous Books

... in grammar is the quality of nouns or pronouns that denotes the sex of the person or thing represented. Those nouns or pronouns meaning males are in the MASCULINE GENDER. Those meaning females are in the FEMININE GENDER. Those referring to things without sex ...

— Practical Grammar and Composition • Thomas Wood

... Soeurs is, it appears, a new one, having originated only a few years ago in the exertions of an old female servant, who, having saved a little money, thought it could not be better employed than in succouring the aged and infirm of her own sex. Her idea was taken up by others of her own order, as well as by women of superior grade. The society was formed, and establishments were quickly set up in various parts of France. It was only in 1851 that a detachment of the ...

— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 - Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 • Various

... the tag-rag rabble of either sex That hung around the wretches as they writhed, Till thrust back by our spears, one held my eye - A weeping woman, whose strained countenance, Sharpened against a looming livid cloud, Was mocked by the crude rays of afternoon - The mother of one of those who suffered there I had heard her called ...

— Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses • Thomas Hardy

... they had been non-combatants, civilians, and by the laws of war the civilian who takes active measures of any sort against the enemy is liable to death. The German army enforced this rule strictly and invariably. Neither age nor sex was a reason for sparing one who had violated it. A woman spy, a boy of fifteen who fired at Germans, would alike be made to face a ...

— The Boy Scouts on the Trail • George Durston

... of her voice recalled the stranger's wandering mind, and he answered: "Your voice is like Rose, but I would rather see you, Maggie Miller. I like your fearlessness, so unlike most of your sex. Rose is far more gentle, more feminine than you, and if her very life depended upon it she would never dare ...

— Maggie Miller • Mary J. Holmes

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