bisexual

adjective · nounB1

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more bisexualmost bisexual

Superlative

bi-sexual

1.
(of humans or other animals) Sexually attracted to both opposite-sex and same-sex individuals. (Compare pansexual.)
Đồng nghĩa: AC/DC, ambidextrous, bi, omnifutuent
2.
(chiefly botany) Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.
3.
(chiefly biology) Having two distinct sexes, male and female (as contrasted with unisexual or hermaphroditic).
4.
(chiefly biology) Involving two sexes (particularly with regard to reproduction; contrast parthenogenetic or asexual).

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

bisexualsbi-sexual

1.
A person who is bisexual.
Đồng nghĩa: bi
2.
(rare)(botany, rare) A plant or fungus, or part thereof, which is bisexual.
3.
(chiefly biology) An organism (that is, a species) which has male and female sexes.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

AC/DCambidextrousbiomnifutuenthermaphroditeperfectperfect, hermaphrodite

Trái nghĩa

monosexual

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

From bi- + -sexual, via the French bisexuel (bi-, sexuel). Attested since 1792 as a synonym in botany for "hermaphroditic" ("having male and female parts"). First used of sexuality in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's 1886 Psychopathia Sexualis (in German) and Charles Gilbert Chaddock's 1892 English translation thereof, due to the theory that people were naturally attracted to the opposite sex and so the…