bisexous

English

Etymology

From Latin bis (“twice”) + sexus (“sex”). Compare French bissexe.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /baɪˈsɛk.səs/

Adjective

bisexous (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, biology) bisexual (having both male and female parts or functions)
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     may we also concede, that Hares have been of both sexes, and some have ocularly confirmed it; but that the whole species or kind should be bisexous or double-sexed, we cannot affirm

See also

• bisexuous

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bisexous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)