Citations:bisexual

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English citations of bisexual

intersex or alternating between male and female[edit]

  • 1909, Harris Hawthorne Wilder, History of the human body, page 49:
    Individuals possessing both sorts of gonads are termed hermaphroditic or bisexual, but owing to the fact that usually the two sorts of organs are functionally active at different times, the organisms are seldom functionally bisexual, but alternately male and female.

noun[edit]

  • 2010, T. J. Pandian, Sexuality in Fishes, CRC Press (→ISBN), page 35:
    A few fishes are unisexual (Fig. 9); they are females; their haploid or diploid eggs are activated by sperm 'borrowed' from males of the sympatric species. Hermaphrodites are bisexuals and this sexual pattern is broadly categorized into []