Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to only one sex.
- adjective Having only one type of sexual organ; not a hermaphrodite.
- adjective Botany Having either stamens or pistils but not both.
- adjective Unisex.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of one sex—that is, having the two sexes developed in different individuals. For or consisting of a single sex.
- Specifically, in entomology, having only female individuals: noting the agamic broods of Aphididæ and some other insects which, during certain parts of the year, continue to propagate the species without any males. See
parthenogenesis . - In botany, said of a flower containing the organs of but one sex, stamens or pistil, but not both; diclinous: opposed to bisexual or hermaphrodite; monœcious or diœcious. It is also applicable to an inflorescence or a plant with such flowers only.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Having one sex only, as plants which have the male and female flowers on separate individuals, or animals in which the sexes are in separate individuals; diœcious; -- distinguished from
bisexual , orhermaphrodite . Seediœcious .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of an organism, having characteristics of single
sex (as opposed tohermaphrodites ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to only one sex or having only one type of sexual organ; not hermaphroditic
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Examples
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Flowers in Uncinia are unisexual, that is male and female reproductive structures are on separate flowers.
Museum Blogs 2009
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The stupidity of this debate is part of the reason I am a unisexual.
Frank slams Obama for 'big mistake' on Defense of Marriage Act (updated) 2009
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To hammer the point home, he provided an equation and summed up, “There are no living beings that can bluntly be described as being unisexual and of one definite sex.”
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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To hammer the point home, he provided an equation and summed up, “There are no living beings that can bluntly be described as being unisexual and of one definite sex.”
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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The ancestral state in other characters is equivocal: e.g., bisexual vs. unisexual flowers, whorled vs. spiral floral phyllotaxis, presence vs. absence of tepal differentiation, anatropous vs. orthotropous ovules.
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In the text books they call it parthenogenetic unisexual pseudocopulation, or uniparens (one parent).
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Wealthier widows received a regular allowance from their families abroad and lived in well-appointed rooms, some even adopting “sons” from the Sephardic community who would care for their needs and ease their solitude; however, most of the women were not rich, and they created a unique female (unisexual) community.
Old Yishuv: Palestine at the End of the Ottoman Period. 2009
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She sounds like the unisexual mating of Dinah Washington and Janis Joplin.
Trey Ellis: Obama/McCain: Kennedy/Nixon or Eisenhower/Stevenson? 2008
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Exceptions exist, of course, and in our time, with the disordered, unisexual-masculine influences of modern "culture," and the vices prevalent therein, many girls sadly are tempted easily by the flesh.
Archive 2006-06-01 Francis 2006
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Exceptions exist, of course, and in our time, with the disordered, unisexual-masculine influences of modern "culture," and the vices prevalent therein, many girls sadly are tempted easily by the flesh.
Modesty as a Duty to the Trinity Francis 2006
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