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imposex

noun

Etymology

Blend of imposed + sex.

  1. derived from *séksus✻
  2. derived from *seksus✻
  3. derived from sexus — “gender; gender traits; males or females; genitals”
  4. derived from sexe — “genitals; gender”
  5. inherited from sexe — “sex 􂀿distinction between male and female􂁀 and gender”
  6. compounded as imposex — “imposed + sex”

Definitions

  1. The development in certain marine gastropod mollusks of sex organs in contrast to their…

    The development in certain marine gastropod mollusks of sex organs in contrast to their actual gender, the result of toxic pollutants.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for imposex. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA