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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• 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
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• 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
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• OFFICEHOLDER
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  That which converts into a salifiable base.
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  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.
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  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.
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  Pertaining to the urinary and genital organs; genitourinary; urogenital; as, the urinogenital canal.
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  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.