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intersexes

intersexes is the plural of intersex.

Meaning of intersex

Noun

intersex (countable and uncountable, plural intersexes)

  1. (uncountable) The condition of being intersex; intersexuality.
    • A Canadian believes that he has solved the diagnostic problem in human intersex. All human cells, says Dr. Murray L. Barr of the University of Western Ontario, contain something called sex chromatin.1953 February 23, Time
  2. (countable) An individual with any of these conditions.
    • Goldschmidt and others who have thought of the homosexual individual as an intersex have relied upon incidence figures which were pure guesses and which, as the data in the present chapter will show, bear little relation to the fact....1948, Alfred Kinsey with Wardell Baxter Pomeroy and Clyde Eugene Martin, Sexual behavior in the human male, page 659
  3. A person who can get pregnant and also impregnate someone else.

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Questions about intersexes

What is intersexes the plural of?
Intersexes is the plural of intersex.

Words near intersexes in the dictionary

  1. interset
  2. intersets
  3. intersetting
  4. intersex
  5. intersexed
  6. intersexes
  7. intersexing
  8. intersexism
  9. intersexness
  10. intersexphobia
  11. intersexphobic

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