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unisexual

adj

Etymology

From uni- + sexual.

  1. borrowed from sexuālis
  2. prefixed as unisexual — “uni + sexual”

Definitions

  1. Of an organism, having characteristics of a single sex (as opposed to hermaphrodites).

    • Most animals are unisexual.

  2. Of a species, having only a single (potentially hermaphroditic) sex (as opposed to…

    Of a species, having only a single (potentially hermaphroditic) sex (as opposed to bisexual).

  3. Unisex

    Unisex; suitable for any sex or gender.

    • You may not be familiar with the name or it could be a unisexual name, and some women and men may have first names that are more traditional for the opposite gender.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. An organism which is unisexual.

      • Populations of ambystomatid salamanders on Middle Bass and North Bass Islands in the western basin of Lake Erie consist largely of female unisexuals. On both islands, diploid unisexuals are more abundant than triploid ...
      • Samples that included both bisexual and unisexual females were obtained from all localities shown in Figure 2 except sites C, J, and O. The proportion of unisexuals in these samples varied from 2% to 94% of the females in a given sample.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at unisexual. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01unisexual02hermaphroditic03solar04predominant05dominant06homozygote07alleles08allele09gene10unisex

A definitional loop anchored at unisexual. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at unisexual

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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