单词 | secondary sex characteristic |
释义 | secondary sex characteristic (once / 738707 pages) n WORD FAMILY secondary sex characteristic: secondary sex characteristics USAGE EXAMPLES“Ms. Diamond has lost breast tissue and her female secondary sex characteristics have diminished,” they said. New York Times(Apr 03, 2015) I possess all the secondary sex characteristics of a normal man except one: my inability to synthesize dihydrotestosterone has made me immune to baldness. Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex: A Novel(2002) The hormones not only buy time but also spare the young teenagers the angst of developing secondary sex characteristics that feel terribly wrong to them. New York Times(Aug 12, 2012) n the genetically determined sex characteristics that are not functionally necessary for reproduction (pitch of the voice and body hair and musculature) Syn|Hyper secondary sex character, secondary sexual characteristic sex character, sex characteristic, sexual characteristic those characteristics (both anatomical and psychological) that are strongly associated with one sex relative to the other |
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