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   Sex·u·al

   /ˈsekSH(əw)əl/

   

   adjective

   • 1. relating to the instincts, physiological processes, and activities connected with physical attraction or intimate physical contact between individuals: "she had felt the thrill of a sexual attraction" Similar carnaleroticcoitalvenerealsensual
   • 2. relating to the two sexes or to gender: "sensitivity about sexual stereotypes"
   • ▪ of or characteristic of one sex or the other: "the hormones which control the secondary sexual characteristics"
   • 3. (of reproduction) involving the fusion of gametes.
   • ▪ being of one sex or the other; capable of sexual reproduction: "the asexual winged forms lay the eggs which hatch into the sexual form" Similar reproductivegenitalsexprocreative

   Word Origin mid 17th century: from late Latin sexualis, from Latin sexus ‘sex’.

   Scrabble Points: 13

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