bisexuallyadv.
/bʌɪˈsɛkʃʊəli/, /bʌɪˈsɛkʃ(ᵿ)li/, /bʌɪˈsɛkʃl̩i/, /bʌɪˈsɛksjʊ(ə)li/, U.S. /baɪˈsɛkʃ(əw)əli/ 1. Biology. In a manner that involves both sexes.
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1886 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 6 247 The worm lives bisexually in earth.
1904 Bot. Gaz. 38 425 Variation is more considerable among the parthenogenetically than the bisexually produced members of a hive of bees.
1960 Jrnl. Parasitol. 46 156 Cercariae were collected after normal emergence from 30 or more bisexually infected snails.
1984 Ann. Rev. Ecol. & Systematics 15 107 Many lineages must have been established by a single, fortuitous, gravid bisexually produced propagule.
2012 T.J. Pandian Sex Determination in Fish x. 177 Unlike in parthenogenesis, the gynogenesis requires sperm from one or more bisexually reproducing ancestral parental species to initiate embryogenesis in their unreduced eggs.
2. Originally Psychology and Psychoanalysis. In the manner of a bisexual person; with regard to or in terms of bisexual sex or bisexuality.
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1913 A. A. Brill in Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 8 310 She was bisexually predisposed, more homo- than heterosexual.
1964 Jrnl. Criminal Law, Criminol., & Police Sci. 55 449/1 Placing one with homosexual drives—whether or not the person is oriented bisexually—in a society composed solely of persons of similar sex is not likely to lead to heterosexual rehabilitation.
1992 Jrnl. Sex Res. 29 144 We examine the extent to which bisexually experienced men are distinctive demographically.
2016 Daily Mail (Nexis) 23 Sept. Scott was bisexually inclined.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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