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Definition of Sex character
1. Noun. Those characteristics (both anatomical and psychological) that are strongly associated with one sex relative to the other.
Specialized synonyms: Primary Sex Character, Primary Sex Characteristic, Primary Sexual Characteristic, Secondary Sex Character, Secondary Sex Characteristic, Secondary Sexual Characteristic, Virilism
Generic synonyms: Characteristic, Feature
Literary usage of Sex character
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Carriers: As Administered in the Courts of the by Robert Hutchinson, Jacob Scott Matthews, William Frederick Dickinson (1906)
"Passengers may be separated according to sex, character, etc.—Color discriminations.—But
though no one who may offer himself to be carried can be refused by ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Carriers: As Administered in the Courts of the by Robert Hutchinson, Floyd Russell Mechem (1891)
"Passengers may l>e separated according to sex, character, etc.— Color
discriminations.— But though no one who may offer himself to be carried can be refused ..."
3. Studies on the Germ Cell of Aphids by Nettie Maria Stevens (1906)
"... that the germ cells of the red parthenogenetic individuals contain the female
sex character in both the paternal and the maternal series of chromosomes, ..."
4. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1920)
"A careful study of a secondary sex-character, the first leg, has shown clearly
that this interpretation is correct and that there is an almost endless ..."
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