Sekirov Dictionary

bisexual

UK /baɪˈsɛk.ʃʊ.əl/US /baɪˈsɛk.ʃ(əw).əl/

adjective 10
noun 3
forms 3

adjective10

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Sexually attracted to both opposite-sex and same-sex individuals. (Compare pansexual.)
- Skirt Club caters to bisexual or bicurious women. No men are allowed, but women with all levels of experience in same-sex sexuality, from bicurious to fully lesbian, are welcomed. — 2016
Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.
Of flowers: having both pollen and seeds.
Of sporophytes: having both male and female organs.
Of gametophytes: producing both eggs and sperm.
Of fungi: producing both the "female" ascogonium and the "male" antheridium.
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Androgynous.
- Consider the identity play of the French artist who gave herself the bisexual name of Claude Cahun (1894–1954). — 2003
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(rare) Hermaphroditic/intersex, being both male and female, or alternating between being male and being female.
- Midrash and Zohar present Adam as hermaphroditic or bisexual.
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Having two distinct sexes, male and female (as contrasted with unisexual or hermaphroditic).
- We also know that bisexual species reproduce during a longer period than hermaphrodite species. — 1925
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Involving two sexes (particularly with regard to reproduction; contrast parthenogenetic or asexual).
- […] where the parthenogenetic and bisexual generations do not differ in any character except their manner of reproduction[…] — 1908

noun3

A person who is bisexual.
An organism (that is, a species) which has male and female sexes.
(rare) A plant or fungus, or part thereof, which is bisexual.

forms

bisexuals · more bisexual · most bisexual

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