bisexual
Pronunciation: /baɪˈsɛk.ʃʊ.əl/
The English word “bisexual” has 12 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Sexually attracted to both opposite-sex and same-sex individuals. (Compare pansexual.)
- Of flowers: having both pollen and seeds.
- Of sporophytes: having both male and female organs.
- Of gametophytes: producing both eggs and sperm.
- Of fungi: producing both the "female" ascogonium and the "male" antheridium.
- Hermaphroditic/intersex, being both male and female, or alternating between being male and being female.
- Androgynous.
- Having two distinct sexes, male and female (as contrasted with unisexual or hermaphroditic).
- Involving two sexes (particularly with regard to reproduction; contrast parthenogenetic or asexual).
noun
Etymology
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…
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