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unisexual

unisexual adjective: of an organism, having characteristics of a single sex (as opposed to hermaphrodites).

Adjective

unisexual (not comparable)

  1. Of an organism, having characteristics of a single sex (as opposed to hermaphrodites).
    • Most animals are unisexual.
  2. Of a species, having only a single (potentially hermaphroditic) sex (as opposed to bisexual).
    • The second line of inquiry has to do with the ultimate fate of unisexual species. Are they doomed to more rapid extinction than bisexual species? On the assumption that unisexual populations lack genetic variation, most theoretical studies […]1981, Mosaic, page 4
  3. Unisex; suitable for any sex or gender.
    • You may not be familiar with the name or it could be a unisexual name, and some women and men may have first names that are more traditional for the opposite gender.2015, Arhlene A. Flowers, Global Writing for Public Relations: Connecting in English with Stakeholders and Publics Worldwide, Routledge, →ISBN, page 433

Noun

unisexual (plural unisexuals)

  1. An organism which is unisexual.
    • Populations of ambystomatid salamanders on Middle Bass and North Bass Islands in the western basin of Lake Erie consist largely of female unisexuals. On both islands, diploid unisexuals are more abundant than triploid ...1978, Floyd L. Downs, Unisexual Ambystoma from the Bass Islands of Lake Erie
    • Samples that included both bisexual and unisexual females were obtained from all localities shown in Figure 2 except sites C, J, and O. The proportion of unisexuals in these samples varied from 2% to 94% of the females in a given sample.2013, David L.G. Noakes, J.A. Ward, Ecology and ethology of fishes: Proceedings of the 2nd biennial symposium on the ethology and behavioral ecology of fishes, held at Normal, Ill., U.S.A., October...

unisexual meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Tagalog

unisexual in Tamil

ஒருபாலான, ஓரிலிங்கத்துக்குரிய, ஒரு பாலி

unisexual in Malayalam

ഏകലിംഗി

unisexual in Tagalog

having characteristics of a single sex
sansariin

Forms of unisexual

pluralunisexuals

Origin of unisexual

From uni- + sexual.

Words formed from unisexual

Questions about unisexual

What does unisexual mean?
Unisexual means of an organism, having characteristics of a single sex (as opposed to hermaphrodites).
What is unisexual in Tamil?
Unisexual in Tamil is ஒருபாலான, ஓரிலிங்கத்துக்குரிய, ஒரு பாலி. See Unisexual meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is unisexual?
Unisexual can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near unisexual in the dictionary

  1. uniseriate
  2. uniseriately
  3. uniserrate
  4. unisex
  5. unisexed
  6. unisexual
  7. unisexuality
  8. unisexualization
  9. unisexualize
  10. unisexualized
  11. unisexualizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unisexual (page history and authors); unisexual (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unisexual (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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