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adj. - Relating to characteristics that are expressed differently in the two genders.

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Usage examples (6)
  • Give your husband to understand that cleanliness and freshness is not a "sex-limited" attribute, and just as a husband wants his wife to be clean and dainty and...
  • A contemporary, sex-limited change in body size of an estuarine turtle in response to commercial fishing.
  • But according to the evidence derived from a study of the sex-limited descent of certain features in other animals the conclusion seems equally clear that in them female...
  • The real problem, then, is the sex-limited heredity, and we shall consider later whether in this kind of heredity also there are characters of internal as well as...
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