bisexual

1. 1

   Sexually attracted to both opposite-sex and same-sex individuals. (Compare pansexual.)

   • Skirt Club caters to bisexual or bicurious women. No men are allowed, but women with all levels of experience in same-sex sexuality, from bicurious to fully lesbian, are welcomed.
2. 2

   Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.; Of flowers: having both pollen and seeds.

3. 3

   Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.; Of sporophytes: having both male and female organs.

4. 4

   Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.; Of gametophytes: producing both eggs and sperm.

5. 5

   Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.; Of fungi: producing both the "female" ascogonium and the "male" antheridium.

6. 6

   Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.; Hermaphroditic/intersex, being both male and female, or alternating between being male and being female.rare

   • Midrash and Zohar present Adam as hermaphroditic or bisexual.
7. 7

   Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.; Androgynous.

   • The bisexual name, such as Marion and Carol (and Evelyn and Vivian in England), is frequently a source of annoyance and embarrassment to the letter writer, who, if he does not know his ambiguously named correspondent personally […]
   • And although Stevens introduces Nanzia Nunzio as a woman, the inflections of the bisexual name and the symbolism implicit in the messenger's characteristics suggest that the "contemplated spouse" is something more than a woman.
8. 8

   Having two distinct sexes, male and female (as contrasted with unisexual or hermaphroditic).

   • We also know that bisexual species reproduce during a longer period than hermaphrodite species.
9. 9

   Involving two sexes (particularly with regard to reproduction; contrast parthenogenetic or asexual).

   • […] where the parthenogenetic and bisexual generations do not differ in any character except their manner of reproduction[…]

syn. perfect · hermaphrodite · bi · AC/DC · ambisextrous · curious · flexible · Kinsey 3 · open-minded · switch-hitting · versatile

1. 1

   A person who is bisexual.

   • Several chapters are devoted to the investigations of the origins and influences prevalent in the life of a bisexual with the latter portion of the book devoted to three extensive in-depth interviews with three bisexuals.
2. 2

   A plant or fungus, or part thereof, which is bisexual.rare

3. 3

   An organism (that is, a species) which has male and female sexes.

   • The direct way to solve this dilemma is to study the inheritance of some specific features of genomic DNA of bisexual species by the genome of unisexual species . It seems possible to study this if the recent bisexuals resemble their ancest