gender

Noun
  1. A grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives;
    In some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness (synset 106339636)
    is a type of: grammatical category, syntactic category - (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
    subtypes:
    • feminine - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
    • masculine - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male
    • neuter - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
    same as: grammatical gender
  2. The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles (synset 105014082)
    "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
    tells us about:
    • male - being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation
    • female - being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop
    • androgynous - having both male and female characteristics
    • sexual - having or involving sex
    • asexual, nonsexual - not having or involving sex
    is a type of: physiological property - a property having to do with the functioning of the body
    subtypes:
    same as: sex, sexuality

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