sex-influenced
chiefly Biology
adjective
(Especially of a gene) affected in its properties or expression by the sex of the individual.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club.
- play politics
- play possum
- play-pretty
- playroom
- playscape
- playscheme
- playschool
- play-season
- play second fiddle
- play-seer
- playset
- playshop
- play silly buggers
- playsome
- play someone along
- play someone false
- play someone off
- play someone out
- play someone's game
- play someone up
- play something back
- play something by ear
- play something down
- play something for laughs
- play something out