bisexualadj/baɪˈsɛk.ʃʊ.əl/

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  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.
  • Pakistani transgender activist Hina Baloch has sparked a massive online debate after claiming in a viral video that 80% of Pakistan is gay and the remaining 20% are bisexual. Speaking in an interview with the Queer Global YouTube channel, Baloch described homosexuality in Pakistan as an open secret suppressed by religion, culture, and family honour. She argued that social pressure forces most Pakistanis to deny or conceal their true sexual orientation.
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  biologybotanynatural-sciencesHaving both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.

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  biologybotanynatural-sciencesHaving both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.

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  biologybotanynatural-sciencesHaving both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.

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  biologybotanynatural-sciencesHaving both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.

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  rarebiologybotanynatural-sciencesHaving both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.

  • Midrash and Zohar present Adam as hermaphroditic or bisexual.
  • To say that Loki is bisexual means that he readily alternates between the male and female sexes, becoming female at will or as needed.
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  biologybotanynatural-sciencesHaving both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.

  • 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 […]
  • At the desk, he completed the registration card, signing his name Jean Cable and giving a New York address. He did not know for sure that he was being pursued, but if so, he knew his pursuers would check new registrations around the city. The bisexual name would give them one more obstacle […]
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  biologynatural-sciencesHaving two distinct sexes, male and female (as contrasted with unisexual or hermaphroditic).

  • It is probable, therefore, that hermaphroditism must be regarded as a variation from an earlier condition in which the sexes were separate, and that the hermaphrodites which occasionally appear in normally bisexual species are produced by variations occurring sporadically in the same direction.
  • We also know that bisexual species reproduce during a longer period than hermaphrodite species.

bisexualnoun/baɪˈsɛk.ʃʊ.əl/

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  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.
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  rarebiologybotanynatural-sciencesA plant or fungus, or part thereof, which is bisexual.

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  biologynatural-sciencesAn 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 ancestral […]