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gender, grammatical gender | a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness | |
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sex, gender | either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided | |
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sex, gender, sexuality | the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles |