SECONDARY SEX CHARACTERISTIC

Meaning of SECONDARY SEX CHARACTERISTIC in English

[secondary sex characteristic] n (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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SECONDARY SEX CHARACTERISTIC — noun Date: 1927 a physical characteristic (as the breasts of a female mammal or the breeding plumage of a male …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SECONDARY SEX CHARACTERISTIC — noun or secondary sex character : a morphological or psychological peculiarity (as the breasts of a female mammal or the …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SECONDARY SEX CHARACTERISTIC — Med. any of a number of manifestations, as development of breasts or beard, muscularity, distribution of fat tissue, and change …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SECONDARY SEX CHARACTERISTIC — Date: 1927 : a physical characteristic (as the breasts of a female mammal or the breeding plumage of a male …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SECONDARY SEX CHARACTERISTIC — Function: noun Date: 1927 : a physical characteristic (as the breasts of a female mammal or the breeding plumage of …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
CHARACTERISTIC — adj characteristic; characteristic de characteristic of
Interlingua English vocab
SEX — I. ˈseks noun ( -es ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Latin sexus; probably akin to Latin secare …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SECONDARY — I. ˈsekənˌderē, -ri sometimes -k ə ŋˌd- adjective Etymology: Middle English secundarie, secondarie, from Latin secundarius, from secundus second + …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CHARACTERISTIC — I. |karə̇ktə|ristik, -rēk-, -tēk also |ker- adjective Etymology: Greek charaktēristikos, from charaktēr + -istikos -istic : belonging to or especially …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SECONDARY — (a.) Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever. (b) Occuring in the …
Английский словарь Webster
SEX — /seks/ , n. 1. either the male or female division of a species, esp. as differentiated with reference to the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SECONDARY — — secondarily /sek"euhn der'euh lee, sek'euhn dair"-/ , adv. — secondariness , n. /sek"euhn der'ee/ , adj., n., pl. secondaries …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SEX — v. identify the sex of, determine sex of something; excite, arouse the sexual desires; turn on, arouse in a sexual …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
SEX — I. ˈseks noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin sexus Date: 14th century 1. : either of the two major forms …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SECONDARY — I. ˈse-kən-ˌder-ē adjective Date: 14th century 1. a. : of second rank, importance, or value b. : of, relating to, …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CHARACTERISTIC — I. ˌker-ik-tə-ˈris-tik, ˌka-rik- noun Date: 1664 1. : a distinguishing trait, quality, or property 2. : the integral part of …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SEX — noun one of the groups founded on this distinction. 2. sex ·noun one of the two divisions of organic beings …
Webster English vocab
SECONDARY — noun a secondary quill. 2. secondary ·noun a secondary circle. 3. secondary ·noun a satellite. 4. secondary ·adj pertaining to …
Webster English vocab
SEX — [sex] n [ME, fr. L sexus] (14c) 1: either of the two major forms of individuals that occur in many …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SECONDARY — [sec.ond.ary] adj (14c) 1 a: of second rank, importance, or value b: of, relating to, or constituting the second strongest …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CHARACTERISTIC — [char.ac.ter.is.tic] n (1664) 1: a distinguishing trait, quality, or property 2: the integral part of a common logarithm 3: the …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SEX — the sum of features by which members of species can be divided into two groupsmale and femalethat complement each other …
Britannica English vocabulary
SEX — sex BrE AmE seks ▷ sexed sekst (= sext) ▷ sexes ˈseks ɪz -əz ▷ sexing ˈseks ɪŋ ▶ ˈ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SECONDARY — secondar|y BrE AmE ˈsek ə nd‿ ə r |i § - ə n der- AmE - ə n der |i …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
CHARACTERISTIC — characteristic BrE AmE ˌkær əkt ə ˈrɪst ɪk ◂ ˌ•ɪkt- ˌker- ▷ characteristic|ally ə l‿i ▷ characteristic|s s
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SEX — / seks; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ U , C ] the state of being male …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SECONDARY — / ˈsekəndri; NAmE -deri/ adjective 1. secondary (to sth) less important than sth else : That is just a secondary …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CHARACTERISTIC — / ˌkærəktəˈrɪstɪk; NAmE / adjective , noun ■ adjective characteristic (of sth/sb) very typical of sth or of sb's character …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SEX — I. sex 1 S1 W2 AC /seks/ BrE AmE noun [ Word Family: noun : ↑ sex , ↑ sexism …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SECONDARY — sec ‧ ond ‧ a ‧ ry S3 W2 /ˈsekənd ə ri $ -deri/ BrE AmE adjective 1 . secondary …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
CHARACTERISTIC — I. char ‧ ac ‧ ter ‧ is ‧ tic 1 S3 W2 /ˌkærəktəˈrɪstɪk◂, ˌkærɪktəˈrɪstɪk◂/ BrE AmE noun [countable usually …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SEX — n., adj., & v. --n. 1 either of the main divisions (male and female) into which living things are placed …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SECONDARY — adj. & n. --adj. 1 coming after or next below what is primary. 2 derived from or depending on or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SEX — n., adj., & v. n. 1 either of the main divisions (male and female) into which living things are placed …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SECONDARY — adj. & n. adj. 1 coming after or next below what is primary. 2 derived from or depending on or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
CHARACTERISTIC — adj. & n. adj. typical, distinctive (with characteristic expertise). n. 1 a characteristic feature or quality. 2 Math. the whole …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SEX — n., adj., & v. --n. 1. either of the main divisions (male and female) into which living things are placed …
Oxford English vocab
SECONDARY — adj. & n. --adj. 1. coming after or next below what is primary. 2 derived from or depending on or …
Oxford English vocab
CHARACTERISTIC — adj. & n. --adj. typical, distinctive (with characteristic expertise). --n. 1. a characteristic feature or quality. 2 Math. the whole …
Oxford English vocab
SEX — ( sexes, sexing, sexed) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. The two …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SECONDARY — 1. If you describe something as secondary , you mean that it is less important than something else. The street …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SEX — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a sex crime (= in which someone is sexually attacked ) a sex scandal …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SECONDARY — adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a secondary infection medical (= an additional infection that happens as a result of the …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
CHARACTERISTIC — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES distinguishing feature/mark/characteristic ▪ The main distinguishing feature of this species is the leaf shape. …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SECONDARY — (EDUCATION) [adjective] [before noun; not gradable] - relating to the education of children approximately between the ages of 11 and …
Cambridge English vocab
CHARACTERISTIC — [adjective]Something which is characteristic is typical of a person or thing.With the hospitality so characteristic of these people, they opened …
Cambridge English vocab
SEX — noun 1 male or female ADJECTIVE ▪ female , male ▪ opposite ▪ At that age they can start becoming …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
SEX — INDEX: relating to being male or female 1. male or female 2. places for people of both sexes 3. for …
Longman Activator English vocab
SEX — See ↑ SEX 1,4 ◆◆◆ • ↑ casual sex • ↑ have sex
Longman Activator English vocab
SEX — n. 25B6; noun they talked about sex : SEXUAL INTERCOURSE, intercourse, lovemaking, making love, sex act, (sexual) relations; mating, copulation; …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
SEX — /seks/ [Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of millions of …
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary
SEX — n. 1 gender It is difficult to determine the sex of some of the lower animals 2 sexual intercourse or …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
SECONDARY — adj. 1 less important, unimportant, inessential or unessential, non-essential, non-critical, subsidiary, ancillary, minor, inferior, subordinate These secondary matters can be …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
SEX — [Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] n. 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of millions of …
Jargon File English vocabulary
SEX — сущ. 1) биол. пол the fair, weaker sex ≈ прекрасный пол, женщины the female sex ≈ женский пол the male …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SECONDARY — 1. прил. 1) а) второй (по порядку); вторичный; производный secondary data ≈ вторичные данные; производные данные 2) а) вспомогательный, подсобный …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
CHARACTERISTIC — 1. прил. характерный, отличительный; типичный, типовой, типический (of) characteristic feature ≈ характерная особенность Syn : typical, distinctive 2. сущ. 1) …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SEX — sex.ogg 1. seks n 1> пол male female sex - мужской женский пол without distinction of age or sex - …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
SECONDARY — secondary.ogg 1. ʹsekənd(ə)rı n 1. 1> подчинённый 2> представитель, действующий по поручению ( кого-л. ) 3> сановник второго ранга ( …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
CHARACTERISTIC — characteristic.ogg 1. ͵kærıktəʹrıstık n 1. характерная черта; особенность, свойство general characteristics - общие свойства 2. спец. признак characteristic of classification …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
SECONDARY — 1) последующее вступление ( сейсмической волны ) 2) эл. вторичная цепь 3) низковольтная часть ( распределительной сети ) 4) вторичная …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
CHARACTERISTIC — 1) свойство, признак 2) характеристика; мн. ч. технические данные; параметры 3) кривая • - absolute spectral-response characteristic - acceleration characteristic …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
SECONDARY — 1) последующее вступление (сейсмической волны) 2) эл. вторичная цепь 3) низковольтная часть (распределительной сети) 4) вторичная обмотка 5) радио ведомая станция • - multitap secondary - split …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
CHARACTERISTIC — 1) свойство, признак 2) характеристика; мн. ч. технические данные; параметры 3) кривая • - absolute spectral-response characteristic - acceleration characteristic of fuel - acceleration characteristic - acceptable …
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