Sex

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One of the groups founded on this distinction.

II. Sex ·noun One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female.

III. Sex ·noun The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes.

IV. Sex ·noun The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female.

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Sex
SEX[SAXETANUM] ...

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
sex
sex (also written VI., and in inscrr. SEXS; cf. Inscr. Orell. 3745), num. adj. [cf. Sanscr. shash,...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
sex
sex or VI (1) adj.num.cf. Gr. ἕξ, Engl. six, six : Sex menses, T.: milia passuum: HS sex milia: de...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary
Sex-
·- A combining form meaning six; as, sexdigitism; sexennial. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language