Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who maintains the doctrine of sexes in plants; one who classifies plants by the sexual system.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) One who classifies plants by the sexual method of Linnæus.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun botany One who classifies plants by the sexual method of Linnaeus.

Etymologies

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sexual +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • Last year we read that "A" cycle-sexualist "caught half-naked in a compromising position with his bicycle has been put on probation for three years."

    Archive 2008-03-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • Last year we read that "A" cycle-sexualist "caught half-naked in a compromising position with his bicycle has been put on probation for three years."

    Sex with inaminate objects Not a sheep 2008

  • We saw the realist run into the naturalist, the naturalist into the animalist, the psychologist into the sexualist, and the sudden reaction to romance, in the form of what is called the historic novel, the receipt for which can be prescribed by any competent pharmacist.

    Complete Essays Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • We saw the realist run into the naturalist, the naturalist into the animalist, the psychologist into the sexualist, and the sudden reaction to romance, in the form of what is called the historic novel, the receipt for which can be prescribed by any competent pharmacist.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • To be sure, prominent psychoanalysts from the great Viennese master down have often invited censure by their messianic attitude, by their harsh and crude condemnation of certain things commonly held sacred, by their loose and extravagant vocabulary, and by their pan-sexualist allegories.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • This is not so much a sexist view as a sexualist view: What’s up here?

    Sex and the single-minded journalists 2008

  • This is not so much a sexist view as a sexualist view: What’s up here?

    Hullabaloo 2008

  • This is not so much a sexist view as a sexualist view: What’s up here?

    It's the Adultery, Stupid Wolff, Michael 2008

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