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intersex

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈɪn.tə.sɛks/Part of speech nounSorted eeinrstxStarts with IEnds with X0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Having sex characteristics that do not fit typical male or female categories.

Word origin

Borrowed from German Intersexe. By surface analysis, inter- + sex.(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Needs more details, especially the German etymology.”) Doublet of intersect.

Used in a sentence

  • When I had learned that I was intersex, I brought this issue to my mother.
  • A Canadian believes that he has solved the diagnostic problem in human intersex. All human cells, says Dr. Murray L. Barr of the University of Western Ontario, contain something called sex chromatin.
  • A much more common condition caused by early exposure of fish larvae to oestrogenic substances is intersex, which in males usually takes the form of ovotestis.

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