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consexual

consexual adjective: of the same sex.

Adjective

consexual (comparative more consexual, superlative most consexual)

  1. Of the same sex.
    • If, in fact, in L. funebris there is no sex marker on the song elements themselves, then a young bird must be able to sex its tutor. The same is true if the individuals were predisposed to produce the total vocabulary of any population, or of both sexes in their own population, and then under...1996 December 1, W. Wickler, K. Lunau, “How Do East African Bush Shrikes Laniarius funebris Recognize Male and Female Tutors During Gender Dialect Development?”, in Naturwissenschaften, volume 83...
    • Experimental Protocol. We could not test all 48 salamanders simultaneously, so we randomly assigned salamanders to consexual pairs for testing and subsequent statistical comparison. Within a pair, one salamander was randomly assigned to the snake-soiled water treatment and the other to the unsoiled...2001 July 1, John C. Maerz, Nova L. Panebianco, Dale M. Madison, “Effects of Predator Chemical Cues and Behavioral Biorhythms on Foraging, Activity of Terrestrial Salamanders”, in Journal of Chemical...
  2. Having both male and female reproductive structures in a single individual.
    • Trees are polygamodioecious: There are male, female, and consexual trees. […] The species (Garcinia indica) has a very complex sexual system. Rawat and Bhatnagar (2005) considered this species as gynodioecious, whereas Rajasekharan and Ganeshan (2002) described it as polygamodioecious. Progenies of...2023 October 11, N. Mini Raj, H. C. Vikram, V. A. Muhammed Nissa, E. V. Nybe, “Garcinia”, in Handbook of Spices in India: 75 Years of Research and Development, Singapore: Springer, →DOI, page 3014

Noun

consexual (plural consexuals)

  1. An individual of the same sex.
    • Group composition by sex was far more variable when tube density was low (0.5 tubes/fish) than when tube density was high (1 tube/fish) (Table 3). Males and females affiliated with consexuals at equal rates.2002 January 7, K. Dunlap, L. Oliveri, “Retreat site selection and social organization in captive electric fish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus”, in Journal of Comparative Physiology A, volume 188, →DOI...
    • Brown males did not chase consexuals.2003 December 1, Troy A Baird; Laurie J Vitt; Teresa D Baird; William E Cooper, Jr.; Janalee P Caldwell; Valentín Pérez-Mellado, “Social behavior and sexual dimorphism in the Bonaire whiptail...

Examples of consexual in a sentence

  • It seems unrealistic to assume the reverse, that a parent bird can sex by some hidden cues newly hatched sexually monomorphic offspring and direct its own vocabulary to consexual young only.1996 December 1, W. Wickler, K. Lunau, “How Do East African Bush Shrikes Laniarius funebris Recognize Male and Female Tutors During Gender...
  • We could not test all 48 salamanders simultaneously, so we randomly assigned salamanders to consexual pairs for testing and subsequent statistical comparison.2001 July 1, John C. Maerz, Nova L. Panebianco, Dale M. Madison, “Effects of Predator Chemical Cues and Behavioral Biorhythms on Foraging...
  • We examined male signaling in a consexual context in two types of experiments.2013 December 24, Tess Driessens, Beatrijs Vanhooydonck, Raoul Van Damme, “Deterring predators, daunting opponents or drawing partners?...
  • Trees are polygamodioecious: There are male, female, and consexual trees. […] The species (Garcinia indica) has a very complex sexual system.2023 October 11, N. Mini Raj, H. C. Vikram, V. A. Muhammed Nissa, E. V. Nybe, “Garcinia”, in Handbook of Spices in India: 75 Years of...

Forms of consexual

Adjective
comparativemore consexual
superlativemost consexual
Noun
pluralconsexuals

Origin of consexual

From con- + sexual.

Questions about consexual

What does consexual mean?
Consexual means of the same sex.
How do you use consexual in a sentence?
It seems unrealistic to assume the reverse, that a parent bird can sex by some hidden cues newly hatched sexually monomorphic offspring and direct its own vocabulary to consexual young only.
What part of speech is consexual?
Consexual can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near consexual in the dictionary

  1. conserveth
  2. conserving
  3. conses
  4. consessus
  5. Consett
  6. consexual
  7. consexuals
  8. consgt.
  9. consgts.
  10. conshie
  11. conshies

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