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 well-groomed, so a wife may enjoy the same qualities in her husband. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
A contemporary, sex-limited change in body size of an estuarine turtle in response to commercial fishing. From Wordnik.com. [Journal Watch Online] Reference
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 must be regarded as. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
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 external origin, blastogenic as well as somatogenic. From Wordnik.com. [Hormones and Heredity] Reference
Even the famous puzzle of sex-limited inheritance is solved, at all events in its more regular manifestations, and we know now how it is brought about that the normal sisters of a colour-blind man can transmit the colour-blindness while his normal brothers cannot transmit it. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
True, she should be denying the existence of sex-limited or sex-influenced traits, because that’s what Darwin’s talking about in the passage in question. From Wordnik.com. [Of Wiker and Witt: The silliest thing I've read all week - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
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