2. Verb. (third-person singular of sex) ¹
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Definition of Sexes
1. sex [v] - See also: sex
Literary usage of Sexes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles ( Darwin (1890)
"We shall find that, as with insects, both sexes in certain groups are equally
... In other groups both sexes are equally plain-coloured and unornamented. ..."
2. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin (1897)
"We shall find that, as with insects, both sexes in certain groups are equally
... In other groups both sexes nre equally plain-coloured and unornamented. ..."
3. Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education by National Society for the Study of Education (1916)
"SEGREGATION OP THE sexes IN THE SCHOOL Whether girls and boys ought to be educated
in the same classes should probably depend upon: (1) "Whether the two ..."
4. The Descent of man and selection in relation to sex by Charles Darwin (1909)
"WITH animals which have their sexes separated, the males necessarily differ from
... But the sexes often differ in what Hunter has called secondary sexual ..."
5. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. by Charles Darwin (1871)
"AMPHIBIANS : Differences in structure and colour between the sexes — Vocal organs.
REPTILES: Chelonians — Crocodiles — Snakes, colours in some cases ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1894)
"During the first period, in which he classes children of both sexes from birth
to the end of the fifth year, the greatest influence is the internal energy ..."
7. The History of Human Marriage by Edward Westermarck (1901)
"... occasions when some hundreds of natives have been gathered together, I have
taken censuses of them, and have always found the sexes equal or nearly so. ..."
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