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missex

missex verb: to sex incorrectly; to incorrectly determine the sex of.

Verb

missex (third-person singular simple present missexes, present participle missexing, simple past and past participle missexed)

  1. To sex incorrectly; to incorrectly determine the sex of.
    • The low-dose group consisted of 34 males and 36 females instead of 35 animals of each sex , because of missexing during the initiation of the study.1978, National Cancer Institute carcinogenesis technical report series. v. 18, 1978
    • The three specimens from Bangka on which the name minor was based, supposedly two males and a female, had wing-lengths of 66, 67 and 68 mm; one may suspect missexing.1986, Zoologische Verhandelingen

Examples of missex in a sentence

  • As it is unlikely that Janssens missexed the type I must assume that the specimens were mislabelled.1996, Natal Museum (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa), Annals of the Natal Museum
  • In species lacking sexual dimorphism in plumage, some missexing is also to be expected.1996, G. F. Mees, Nuttall Ornithological Club, Publications of the Nuttall Ornithological Club:
  • Missexing is a very common reason for the failure of two snakes to mate.2012, John Rossi, Roxanne Rossi, What's Wrong With My Snake, Fox Chapel Publishing, →ISBN, page 100:

Forms of missex

third-person singular presentmissexes
present participlemissexing
past participlemissexed
pastmissexed

Origin of missex

From mis- + sex.

Questions about missex

What does missex mean?
Missex means to sex incorrectly; to incorrectly determine the sex of.
How do you use missex in a sentence?
As it is unlikely that Janssens missexed the type I must assume that the specimens were mislabelled.
What part of speech is missex?
Missex is a verb.
What is the past tense of missex?
The past tense of missex is missexed.

Words near missex in the dictionary

  1. missew
  2. missewed
  3. missewing
  4. missewn
  5. missews
  6. missex
  7. missexed
  8. missexes
  9. missexing
  10. missey
  11. Misseys

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