Word Meanings - SEXUAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
Additional info about word: SEXUAL
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. Sexual dimorphism , the condition of having one of the sexes existing in two forms, or varieties, differing in color, size, etc., as in many species of butterflies which have two kinds of females. -- Sexual method , a method of classification proposed by Linnæus, founded mainly on difference in number and position of the stamens and pistils of plants. -- Sexual selection , the selective preference of one sex for certain characteristics in the other, such as bright colors, musical notes, etc.; also, the selection which results from certain individuals of one sex having more opportunities of pairing with the other sex, on account of greater activity, strength, courage, etc.; applied likewise to that kind of evolution which results from such sexual preferences. Darwin. In these cases, therefore, natural selection seems to have acted independently of sexual selection. A. R. Wallace.
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- BASKING SHARK
One of the largest species of sharks , so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species. - PECULIARIZE
To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith. - BASIFY
To convert into a salifiable base. - BASILIC; BASILICAL
Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm. (more info) 1. Royal; kingly; also, basilican. - BASS VIOL
A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello. - BASSWOOD
The bass or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree. All the bowls were made of basswood, White and polished very smoothly. Longfellow. - FEMALE
A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or - BASTARDLY
Bastardlike; baseborn; spuripous; corrupt. -- adv. - RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - BASKET BALL
A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets. - BASAL
Relating to, or forming, the base. Basal cleavage. See under Cleavage. -- Basal plane , one parallel to the lateral or horizontal axis. - BASINET
See BASCINET - BASED
Wearing, or protected by, bases. "Based in lawny velvet." E. Hall. (more info) 1. Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based. 2. Etym: - OFFICEHOLDER
An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman. - BASIFIER
That which converts into a salifiable base. - BASTE
To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. 3. To mark with tar, as sheep. (more info) 1. To beat with a stick; to cudgel. One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the - BASICITY
The quality or state of being a base. The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid. - GENITALS
The organs of generation; the sexual organs; the private parts. - DISTINCTIVENESS
State of being distinctive. - BASENESS
The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness. I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. Shak. - PRELATIST
One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott. - CONTRADISTINGUISH
To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke. - POLYBASIC
Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several molecules of a monacid base; having several hydrogen atoms capable of being replaced by basic radicals; -- said of certain acids; as, sulphuric acid is polybasic. - POST OFFICE
See POST - INDISTINGUISHABLE
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form - POLYBASITE
An iron-black ore of silver, consisting of silver, sulphur, and antimony, with some copper and arsenic. - PRELATISM
Prelacy; episcopacy. - URINOGENITAL
Pertaining to the urinary and genital organs; genitourinary; urogenital; as, the urinogenital canal. - PRELATIZE
To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.