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nounthe properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive rolestype of:
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nouna 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
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- feminine a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
- feminine of grammatical gender
- decline inflect for number, gender, case, etc.
- masculine a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male
- masculine of grammatical gender
- transsexual identifying with the opposite gender from the one that one is born with
- neuter a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
- neuter of grammatical gender
- inversion a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex
- chauvinistic of or relating to persons convinced of the superiority of their own gender or kind