bisexual
IPA: baɪsˈɛkʃuʌɫ
noun
- A person who is bisexual.
- (botany, rare) A plant or fungus, or part thereof, which is bisexual.
- (chiefly biology) An organism (that is, a species) which has male and female sexes.
adjective
- (of humans or other animals) Sexually attracted to both same-gendered and different-gendered partners. Similar to pansexual
- (chiefly botany) Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.
- (botany) Of flowers: having both pollen and seeds.
- (botany) Of sporophytes: having both male and female organs.
- (botany) Of gametophytes: producing both eggs and sperm.
- (botany) Of fungi: producing both the "female" ascogonium and the "male" antheridium.
- (rare) Hermaphroditic/intersex, being both male and female, or alternating between being male and being female.
- Androgynous.
- (chiefly biology) Having two distinct sexes, male and female (as contrasted with unisexual or hermaphroditic).
- (chiefly biology) Involving two sexes (particularly with regard to reproduction; contrast parthenogenetic or asexual).
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Examples of "bisexual" in Sentences
- He is interested in the bisexual lifestyle.
- Alex is the only bisexual woman out of the five.
- The word bisexual is not mentioned in the article.
- He was a minor deity of bisexuality and effeminacy.
- One of the most macho guys there is openly bisexual.
- The book describes a faddish attention towards bisexuality.
- Fading of bisexual chic in the 1980s was mentioned in the megazine.
- Bisexuals are marginalized by both the straight and the Gay community.
- Both the heterosexual and the homosexual find the bisexual threatening.
- 'Bisexism' is the discriminating views of bisexuals against monosexuals.
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