Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
---|---|---|---|---|
gender | Yes | No | No | No |
androgyny | Yes | No | No | No |
gender (noun) | androgyny (noun) |
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the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles | showing characteristics of both sexes |
a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness |