Synonyms: gender, sex, sexuality
Definition: the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
Usage: she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus
Similar words: physiological property
Definition: a property having to do with the functioning of the body
Synonyms: gender, grammatical gender
Definition: a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
Similar words: grammatical category, syntactic category
Definition: (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties