EGAVE

bisexual

About 1.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Sexually attracted to both opposite-sex and same-sex individuals.
  2. adjective Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions. Of flowers: having both pollen and seeds. Of sporophytes: having both male and female organs. Of gametophytes: producing both eggs and sperm. Of fungi: producing both the "female" ascogonium and the "male" antheridium. Hermaphroditic/intersex, being both male and female, or alternating between being male and being female.
    Midrash and Zohar present Adam as hermaphroditic or bisexual.
  3. adjective Of flowers: having both pollen and seeds.
  4. adjective Of sporophytes: having both male and female organs.
  5. adjective Of gametophytes: producing both eggs and sperm.
  6. adjective Of fungi: producing both the "female" ascogonium and the "male" antheridium.
  7. adjective Hermaphroditic/intersex, being both male and female, or alternating between being male and being female.
    Midrash and Zohar present Adam as hermaphroditic or bisexual.
  8. adjective Androgynous.

Similar words

androgynous epicene bisexual person bi bicurious ambisexual plurisexual biromantic pansexual omnisexual

Often followed by

men and women people or identity youth flowers identities

Word family

bisexualities bisexuality bisexually bisexuals

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