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secondary sex characteristics

secondary sex characteristics is the plural of secondary sex characteristic.

Meaning of secondary sex characteristic

Noun

secondary sex characteristic (plural secondary sex characteristics)

  1. A feature that distinguishes between the two sexes in adult members of a species, but is not directly part of the reproductive system.
    • Breasts in females and facial hair in males are examples of secondary sex characteristics in humans.

Questions about secondary sex characteristics

What is secondary sex characteristics the plural of?
Secondary sex characteristics is the plural of secondary sex characteristic.

Words near secondary sex characteristics in the dictionary

  1. secondary school
  2. secondary schools
  3. secondary sector
  4. secondary sectors
  5. secondary sex characteristic
  6. secondary sex characteristics
  7. secondary smoking
  8. secondary source
  9. secondary sources
  10. secondary storage
  11. secondary storages

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Adapted from Wiktionary: secondary sex characteristics (page history and authors); secondary sex characteristic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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