SECONDARY SEX CHARACTERISTIC


Meaning of SECONDARY SEX CHARACTERISTIC in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1927

: a physical characteristic (as the breasts of a female mammal or the breeding plumage of a male bird) that appears in members of one sex at puberty or in seasonal breeders at the breeding season and is not directly concerned with reproduction — called also secondary sexual characteristic

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