单词 | relative sexuality |
释义 | > as lemmasrelative sexuality relative sexuality n. [after German relative Sexualität (M. Hartmann 1909, in Archiv f. Protistenkunde 14 325)] Biology (now chiefly historical) a supposed phenomenon in which an individual or gamete of a simple organism may act as either female or male depending on whether it is more or less male than the one it interacts with. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > state or condition of having characteristics of both sexes hermaphroditism1808 androgynism1823 hermaphrodism1828 androgynity1842 bisexuality1842 androgyny1852 bisexualism1865 pseudohermaphroditism1881 asexuality1886 virilism1896 bi-gender1912 intersexuality1916 sex intergrade1916 relative sexuality1926 ambisexuality1938 monoecy1949 testicular feminization (or feminizing)1953 1926 Q. Rev. Biol. 1 202 Under the title of Research on Relative Sexuality, Hartmann has recently described results that he obtained with the marine alga, Ectocarpus siliculosus. 1948 F. E. Fritsch Struct. & Reprod. Algae 327 Relative sexuality, in which one thread [of Spirogyra] behaves respectively as male and female to two others, is also on record. 2003 R. H. Davis Microbial Models Molecular Biol. xiv. 188 Relative sexuality, according to Hartmann, was a complication of the simple two-type system. < as lemmas |
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