| 单词 | sexual character |
| 释义 | > as lemmassexual character sexual character n. (usually in plural) any feature that is characteristic of or peculiar to one sex or the other.primary sexual characters, the gonads and genitals; secondary sexual characters, sexual characters other than the gonads and genitals, such as the beard in human males and the distinctive plumage of many birds. ΚΠ 1774 J. Hill Veg. Syst. XXV. 9 In all the Daffodills, six Filaments, with their yellow heads, are conspicuous enough in the natural Flowers; here there are but three: but this only seems to break in upon the sexual character. 1834 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 4 318 Mr Titian R. Peale..suggested to Dr Godman that the tusks in the lower jaw might be merely a sexual character. 1926 J. R. Baker Sex in Man & Animals ii. 26 The primary sexual characters are..the testes and ovaries. The accessory sexual characters are the obviously useful sex characters other than the testes and ovaries, such as the vas deferens..and the vagina... The secondary sexual characters are those which seem not to be directly concerned in reproduction, such as beards, antlers, and crests. 1998 Isis 89 463 Neither the somatic nor the psychobehavioral sexual characters, then, were laid down irreversibly ab ovo. < as lemmas |
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