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Hetero sapiens

Hetero sapiens proper noun: collectively, straight people.

Proper noun

Hetero sapiens

  1. (humorous) Collectively, straight people.
    • Man and woman, I said? In this day and age, forget gender! The problem is even more poignant if we consider any combination of Homo and Hetero sapiens getting married. Which name do they take?2005, Jim Wegryn, Funny Thing about Names: An Entertaining Look at Naming in America, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 62

Origin of Hetero sapiens

From hetero (short for heterosexual) + translingual Homo sapiens, as if Homo (“the name of the taxonomic genus within the family Hominidae people are placed in”) were short for homosexual, while in truth it derives from Latin homō (“human being, man”).

Questions about Hetero sapiens

What does Hetero sapiens mean?
Hetero sapiens means collectively, straight people.
What part of speech is Hetero sapiens?
Hetero sapiens is a proper noun.

Words near Hetero sapiens in the dictionary

  1. heterically
  2. hetericism
  3. heteritic
  4. hetero
  5. hetero marriage
  6. Hetero sapiens
  7. hetero-
  8. hetero-fascism
  9. hetero-marriage
  10. hetero-oligomerisation
  11. hetero-oligomerization

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