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to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual intercourse, connection, or commerce; sexual desire; sexual diseases; sexual generation. Sexual dimorphism (Biol.), the condition of having one of the sexes existing in two forms, or varieties, diffe…

One who classifies plants by the sexual method of Linnæus.

The quality or state of being distinguished by sex. Lindley.

To attribute sex to.

In a sexual manner or relation.

Having no distinct; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.

The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy.

In an asexual manner; without sexual agency.

Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.

Sexless; asexual.

Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.

nimals in which the sexes are in separate individuals; dioecious; -- distinguished from bisexual, or hermaphrodite. See Dioecious.

Not sexual; not proper or peculiar to one of the sexes. De Quincey.

Admission to sexual intercourse. During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown. Blackstone.

Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.

A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.

The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.

Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction.

Reproducing or produced without sexual union. -- Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv. All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley.

Having no visible sexual organs; asexual. In Bot., cryptogamous.